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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.

Researchers at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory are investigating the root cause of failures to wind turbine drivetrain components, such as bearin...

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.

NREL recently released a more robust version of its FAST software under a modularization framework that represents a generational change in how computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools are developed.