
WETO announced funding for 6 small businesses working to accelerate wind energy Research and Development

Learn how wind energy can provide health and environmental benefits that outweigh its costs.

WETO and the National Science Foundation Award Funding to Accelerate Floating Offshore Wind Research
Johns Hopkins University and Portland State University received funding from the National Science Foundation and WETO on a project that will help unlock the vast potential of floating offshore wind farms in the United States.

On Farmworker Appreciation Day, we celebrate the growing collaboration between American agriculture and our renewable energy industries.
Nearly $50 million funding available for projects that address several major areas of need for offshore wind.

DOE is collaborating on an 18-month initiative to gather extensive weather, ocean, and wildlife data near the sites of active offshore wind farms and lease areas off the coast of the Northeast United States.

This innovative system collects behavioral data for birds and bats in the vicinity of wind turbines to help the wind industry meet monitoring requirements for development of proposed wind farm sites.
The University of New Hampshire won the 5th annual Marine Energy Collegiate Competition.

The Wind Energy Technologies Office is exploring the relationship between wildlife and wind turbines.

While studying mechanical engineering at the University of Texas in Austin, Paquette became interested in structural components and composite materials. Although he originally planned to pursue work in the aerospace industry, he jumped at the opportunity to work at Sandia on wind turbine blades—the largest composite structures in the world.