National Labs Use OpenEI to Showcase Capabilities

National laboratories are the backbone of the U.S. Department of Energy's R&D efforts—and generate some of the most valuable and accessible energy information.

So it is fitting that every national laboratory has a page on OpenEI. Although some contain only basic information, others give detailed descriptions of lab capabilities and R&D activities, with links back to lab websites.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, for example, use OpenEI pages to describe their R&D programs, including work on nuclear energy, biofuels, geothermal energy, and more. The National Energy Technology Laboratory highlights its energy analysis and modeling tools, giving each tool its own page.

The U.S. OpenLabs pages describe the work of national labs that are assisting developing countries with clean energy deployment.

DOE uses OpenEI to make its data and resources available to the public and help the federal government become more open, transparent, and accessible. By building robust OpenEI pages, national labs are contributing to this effort while raising the visibility of their work and increasing web traffic back to their sites.

It's easy to create new OpenEI pages or add to existing ones. Simply create an account, then start contributing using OpenEI's user-friendly Wiki functions.