Trump administration renames Colorado’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Federal administrators on Monday renamed the National Renewable Potency Laboratory which is headquartered in Golden and removed any mention of renewable vitality The decades-old power research hub is now called the National Laboratory of the Rockies Department of Vitality agents declared in a news release We are no longer picking and choosing resource sources Assistant Power Secretary Audrey Robertson mentioned in the release Our highest priority is to invest in the scientific capabilities that will restore American manufacturing drive down costs and help this country meet its soaring power demand The national lab was created in the fallout of the oil predicament which spiked the price of oil and limited imports to the United States The lab was first named the Solar Force Research Institute under President Gerald Ford a Republican and in it was renamed the National Renewable Ability Laboratory by President George H W Bush also a Republican Related Articles National Renewable Resource Laboratory lays off employees in Golden Uncertainty looms over Boulder s iconic NOAA labs site CU Boulder researchers lose solar grant amid million in cuts to Colorado vitality projects The Trump administration laid off more than workers at NREL s Golden campus in May and it has sought to significantly cut back on solar and wind power research as it reduces spending on renewable potential and eliminates programs aimed at addressing context change The laboratory s website on Monday evening included a logo at the top with the new name though the content of the pages continued to reference the previous name This new name embraces a broader applied vigor mission entrusted to us by the Department of Force to deliver a more affordable and secure force future for all Jud Virden laboratory director of the National Laboratory of the Rockies declared in the release Stay up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly newsletter The Spot