DC power players celebrate NREL expansion efforts in Colorado

GOLDEN — Colorado was the epicenter of the United States’ renewable energy economy Monday as politicos from Washington, D.C. — including a sitting U.S. senator and a member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet — descended on Golden to get a first-hand look at a series of expansion and improvement projects at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

NREL’s efforts, paid for in large part thanks to an injection of $150 million in federal infrastructure funds from the U.S. Department of Energy, will be focused on the agency’s campus in Golden, but, according to NREL director Martin Keller, will also include “significant investments”…