Articles about Offshore Wind Research and Development

Led by the Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Columbia Basin Wind Energy Study gathered massive amounts of wind data between November 2010 and November 2011 with a variety of wind instruments placed right next to an o...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) completed fabrication and began field testing a set of wind turbine blades with active load control capabilities.
DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published the first formal report on the efforts of the Gearbox Reliability Collaborative (GRC) to address a major challenge for the wind energy industry—gearbox reliability. Gearbox failures require ...