Battelle and MRIGlobal formed Alliance for Sustainability, LLC for the purpose of winning the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) management and operating (M&O) contract. As the M&O contractor, Alliance is fully accountable to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for assuring NREL's performance.

The Battelle-MRIGlobal team has a multiple decade history of successfully working together at NREL and takes pride in the Laboratory's continued successful delivery of energy efficiency and renewable energy mission outcomes for DOE and the nation.

NREL is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of five executives each from MRIGlobal and Battelle, and one each from the following five universities: the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.