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WINDExchange
The U.S. Department of Energy’s WINDExchange platform provides easy-to-understand resources to help community decision makers, home and business owners, educators, and students understand the benefits and impacts of wind energy. By sharing the best available science and fact-based wind energy information, WINDExchange enables U.S. communities to:
- Make wind development decisions using a suite of resources and tools.
- Understand siting, permitting, and installation processes.
- Collaborate or partner with many organizations, including non-governmental organizations, academia, and national laboratories.
Resources and outreach materials available through WINDExchange include:
- Information about wind energy for all 50 states and U.S. territories.
- Maps of wind resources and installed wind capacity across the United States.
- A quarterly e-newsletter sharing the latest wind energy news and events.
- Webinars available to the public on a variety of wind energy-related topics.
- A compilation of education and workforce development programs for the next generation of wind energy workers.
- Fact-based information on the community impactsand wildlife impacts of wind energy.
- Models, data, tools, and guidebooks to aid in the siting and development process for wind energy projects.
Visit the WINDExchange website and subscribe to the WINDExchange e-newsletter to learn more.
Wind Events
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Mar 3Operations, Maintenance & Safety ConferenceMar 3 - Mar 5 Starts 10:00am EST View Event Details for Operations, Maintenance & Safety Conference
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Apr 14Siting and Permitting ConferenceApr 14 - Apr 16 Starts 02:00pm EST View Event Details for Siting and Permitting Conference
Wind Success Stories
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Success demonstrates progress in American clean energy manufacturing. -
Learn how a utility in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a national lab used tools to simulate the impact of clean energy technologies on the city’s power system. -
Laura Hastings shares a near-death experience that resulted in her unique professional journey in wind energy. -
The Wind Turbine Verification Program, established in 1993, introduced electric utilities to emerging wind turbine technologies, created more confidence in wind power, and helped wind energy become the robust renewable energy resource it is today. -
WETO's decades-long support of modeling software helps expand wind energy industry's turbine design capabilities -
DOE-funded research led to wind turbine blade breakthroughs that provide more power at lower cost. -
Wind energy has joined the energy mainstream, thanks in large part to the wind integration studies funded by the Wind Energy Technologies Office. -
For more than 30 years, research funded by the Wind Energy Technologies Office has addressed wind energy’s effects on wildlife and the environment. -
Airfoils are the foundation of turbine blade designs. Generating lift and drag when they move through the air, airfoils play a key role in improving the aerodynamic performance and structural durability of a turbine’s blades. -
Carbon Rivers, a company that produces advanced material and energy technologies, has commercialized a process that recovers clean, intact glass fiber from decommissioned wind turbine blades