NREL director Dan Arvizu to retire in September

GOLDEN — Dan E. Arvizu intends to retire at the end of September as director and chief executive of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.

Arvizu also plans to retire as president of the Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, which manages NREL on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Energy secretary Ernest Moniz said under Arvizu’s guidance NREL has become “world renowned for clean-energy advancement and cutting-edge science.

“Just one example of Dan’s focus on driving technology innovation is the recently opened Energy Systems Integration Facility, which…