Articles about Offshore Wind Research and Development

Applications are now open for recent graduates and energy professionals to apply to DOE’s new Renewable Energy Innovator Fellowship.

Researchers from NREL explore challenges related to the expansion of wind power.

After 53 years serving in the federal government, the Wind Energy Technologies Office Director Robert C. Marlay retired on March 3, 2022.

The Demand for a Domestic Offshore Wind Energy Supply Chain provides a broad summary of the components, ports, vessels, and workforce that are likely needed to achieve this target. 

The Numerical Manufacturing and Design tool and FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady State version 3.0 have received important upgrades.

Over the past decade, the wind fleet’s average capacity factor has increased substantially. Researchers have been debating how much of the improvement should be credited to technology versus increasing wind speeds.

We need your help to commercialize national laboratory intellectual property faster to meet the major challenges we face as a nation and in the world today.

WETO has released a Request for Information to gather information on research needs related to the effects of offshore wind development on communities, in the context of a national energy addition.

This round will fund projects that facilitate ocean co-use, mitigate impacts to marine wildlife, enhance offshore wind power forecasting, and improve transmission system reliability and resilience.

The American Wind Wildlife Institute is now officially REWI, the Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute, to reflect the expansion of their scope to include solar.