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Below are stories about research efforts featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office.
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WETO and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s floating scientific research buoy is stationed in Hawai'i to collect offshore wind resource, meteorological, and oceanographic data that can be used to compare wind model predictions with actual data.
WETO has published a West Coast Offshore Wind Transmission Literature Review and Gaps Analysis to address challenges facing the interconnecting of large wind farms to coastal substations and transmission infrastructure.
What happens when a wind energy project reaches the end of its service? WETO's new guide provides a detailed explanation.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s analysis of the PJM Interconnection found substantial interconnection cost increases and tremendous growth of PJM’s interconnection project queue.
WETO-funded research teams from three national laboratories are working proactively to strengthen security measures, policies, and information technology infrastructure.
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 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.
This DOE-funded project analyzes how to build a wind turbine that could serve both military and humanitarian missions around the world.
DOE Requests Information on Floating Offshore Wind Energy Mooring and Anchoring
In a collaborative study published in Wind Energy Science, a team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory examined offshore wind energy challenges and laid out future approaches to meet them.