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The Department of Energy launched a $6 million project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and private partners to improve wind forecasting.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will award $43 million over the next five years to 41 projects across 20 states to speed technical innovations, lower costs, and shorten the timeline for deploying offshore wind energy systems.
New modeling tool developed for better understanding of floating platforms.
The Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC) in Boston, Massachusetts, now offers a full suite of certification tests for turbine blades up to 90 m in length as the state-of-the-art facility opened May 18, 2011.
Advanced Manufacturing Initiative Improves Turbine Blade Productivity
DOE-DOI Strategy Seeks to Harness U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Potential
This is an excerpt from the Second Quarter 2011 edition of the Wind Program R&D Newsletter.
On March 16, 2011, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory hosted a kick-off meeting for Phase 2 of the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study (WWSIS).
As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, DOE is investing up to $20.3 million in innovative projects to strengthen the U.S. solar manufacturing industry, improve manufacturing efficiencies, and reduce costs. This includes suppor...
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced additional details of the Department of Energy's "SunShot" initiative to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost competitive at large scale with oth...