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Below are stories about environmental impacts and siting featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office.
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Researchers from PNNL have come up with a novel way to integrate that stereo vision feature into software.

DOE has released a Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled “Advanced Wind R&D to Reduce Costs and Environmental Impacts.”

Wind development projects continue to improve their practices through lessons learned and better understanding the outcome of management decisions.

A study led by LBNL provides unprecedented insight into the attitudes of Americans who live near U.S. wind turbines.

The USGS and DOE released the United States Wind Turbine Database and Viewer to access this new public dataset.

When planning offshore wind projects, collecting data on the abundance of birds and bats informs project siting.

The Department of Energy’s Wind Vision report assesses the potential economic and social benefits of a study scenario where U.S. wind power supplies 10% of the nation’s electrical demand by 2020, 20% by 2030, and 35% by 2050. It also outlines a roa...
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