It is about 10,000 miles between the main campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, and Western Australia. But that distance shrank considerably in September 2022 when West Australian Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a subsidiary of globally leading resources and energy company Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (Fortescue), announced a partnership with NREL for the Fortescue Colorado Innovation Center, a U.S.-based FFI Worldwide Green Hydrogen research and development center in Colorado.