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DOE is taking applications for the Fiscal Year 2024 Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness Lab Call.
DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently investigated advanced manufacturing processes and materials to enable novel wind turbine blade designs that both decrease costs and increase efficiency.
DOE is requesting information on challenges and opportunities relating to the co-existence of wind energy and radar.
WETO is partnering with the National Science Foundation to fund research focused on fundamental fluid dynamics associated with wind energy.
The Renewable Energy Potential model can help identify optimal regions for wind plants based on factors like wind resources, land use, topography, and community preferences. It has revealed pathways to Puerto Rico’s renewable energy goals.
Request for Information: Grid Integration of Solar Energy Systems and Other Inverter-based Resources
Share your thoughts on the technical challenges and opportunities for grid integration of solar energy systems and other inverter-based resources connected to bulk power systems, distribution systems, microgrids, and behind-the-meter systems.
In 2023, the Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation Working Group released an updated strategy to address wind turbines’ interference with critical radar missions, ensuring the long-term resilience of radar operations in the presence of wind turbines.
WETO is funding 18 projects at between $75,000 and 150,000 each in the topic areas of Data Synthesis/Artificial Intelligence; Novel Wind Energy Architectures, Approaches, and Components R&D, Systems Integration, and an open topic area.
A WETO-funded partnership between General Electric, Sandia National Laboratories, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is enhancing data collection efforts to improve the accuracy of wind industry simulation tools.
A multiyear project advanced understanding of environmental effects, identified existing information gaps, and described future environmental research efforts needed to responsibly develop offshore wind energy projects in U.S. waters.