Lao Delegates Get Firsthand Look at State-of-the-Art Electric Vehicle Technologies—and So Much More
This past June, under sunny Colorado skies, a group of 10 delegates from the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) could be seen hustling about two of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) campuses—from conference room to hydrogen fuel cell to research lab—over the course of seven days.
The delegates, who collectively represent Lao PDR's ministries of energy and mines, electricity, and transport, were eager to learn more about research at NREL that could be beneficial for helping their country meet its sustainable transportation and national energy system targets.
The visit came in the middle of a multiyear project, during which NREL has been providing technical assistance, capacity-building trainings, and policy and modeling expertise to key government stakeholders, with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Laos.
