Articles about Offshore Wind Research and Development

EERE's Wind Program announced $2 million in funding to advance technologies that address wind development’s potential impacts on wildlife.

This Morning at the American Energy and Manufacturing Competitiveness Summit, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Dr. D...

A new report by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory identifies research opportunities to improve the ways in which wholesale electricity markets are designed, with a focus on how the characteristics of variable generation from wind and solar pow...

Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), in collaboration with the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s (WECC’s) Renewable Energy Modeling ...

For the past several years, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has teamed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Germany to lead an international effort under the International Energy Agency’s Task 30 to...

The nationwide demand for energy is fueling development of offshore wind resources.

The TSPEAR toolkit supports energy developers that wish to design, analyze, track the progress of wind energy projects. Initially designed to support wind energy development by assessing the interaction between turbines and constraining factors, such a...

Starting in 2012, researchers tried placing spotlights downwind from the 2.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine in Rosemount, Minnesota. The research team was attempting to study turbulent airflow around a turbine in the field.

AML Superconductivity and Magnetics, in conjunction with DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, recently announced that their superconducting magnet system passed a landmark reliability test, demonstrating its potential suitability for wide-scale commercia...

In 2011, DOE awarded $43 million to 41 projects across 20 states to speed technical innovations, lower costs, and shorten the timeline for deployin...