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Below are stories about siting featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office.
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WETO is seeking input on high-priority environmental research needs regarding impact assessment, model validation, and monitoring and mitigation.
Flight-path monitoring aims to determine the effectiveness of ultrasonic acoustic deterrents.
An NREL study explores opportunities for increasing wind turbine hub height and the conditions and locations where these towers have the most impact.
Small, light, wide-range tags more effectively track behavior and flight patterns, safeguarding bats from potential encounters with wind turbines.
To improve wind forecast accuracy, WETO funded the second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2).
A comprehensive, regularly updated data set of U.S. wind turbine locations and characteristics is now publicly available.
The USGS and DOE released the United States Wind Turbine Database and Viewer to access this new public dataset.
Offshore wind turbines on the Atlantic coast (as well as the Gulf Mexico) have several challenges to contend with—including hurricanes.
This blog is part of a series that explores offshore wind technical challenges that are different in the U.S. than in other countries.
This blog is part of a series that explores offshore wind technical challenges that are different in the United States than in other countries.