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WETO-funded research teams from three national laboratories are working proactively to strengthen security measures, policies, and information technology infrastructure.
The selected teams will focus on challenges associated with fixed-bottom offshore wind energy projects.
Last year brought many advances in wind energy. Here are the most influential wind energy stories from 2022 from the Wind Energy Technologies Office.
The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium released a report identifying how the United States can develop a robust and equitable domestic supply chain required to achieve the national offshore wind target of 30 gigawatts by 2030.
The American WAKE experimeNt, an international, multi-institutional effort to gather the most comprehensive data-set to date on how individual wind turbines interact with one another and the atmosphere on a wind farm, is well underway.
REpowering Schools is partnering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to offer seed-funding for wind energy projects.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory released a Notice of Intent to provide funds to address gaps in information on the real-world benefits and usage of grid-enhancing technologies.
The U.S. Departments of Energy, the Interior, Transportation, and Commerce will host the first-ever Floating Offshore Wind Shot Summit to discuss this ambitious initiative to reduce the cost of floating offshore wind energy.
NREL plans to award $2.9 million to 11 manufacturers of small- and medium-scale wind turbines
Rounding out this year’s featured Clean Energy Champions is earth scientist Mark Severy of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.