Below are stories about resource assessment and characterization featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office.
The Department of Energy’s Wind Vision report assesses the potential economic and social benefits of a study scenario where U.S. wind power...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) currently owns two AXYS WindSentinel buoys that collect a comprehensive set of meteorological and oceanographic...
The Energy Department today released a first-of-its-kind assessment of the potential future growth of distributed wind energy in the United States...
Developed for use in offshore wind energy research and design, a database of meteorological ocean (m...
A long-term acoustic survey of bat activity at remote islands, offshore structures, and coastal site...
Offshore wind farms along state and federal shores have the technical potential to provide more than 2,000 gigawatts of capacity. Developing just 1...
A new report evaluating the potential for offshore wind energy development across U.S. coasts found that even if only 1% of the technical resource...
Balancing the power grid is an art—or at least a scientific study in chaos—and the Energy Department is hoping wind energy can take a greater role...
Deep in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge in Washington and Oregon, an extensive data collection effort is underway. It’s all part of the Wind...
New report shows how the United States can unlock the vast potential for wind energy deployment through next-generation turbines.
LLNL researchers studying how to reduce uncertainties and errors in wind forecasts and power predictions.
A new report recently published by DOE shows a downward trend in levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for both land-based and offshore wind projects...
The Energy Department today announced $2.5 million for a new project to research the atmospheric processes that generate wind in mountain-valley...
Our National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), together with the Energy Department’s Wind Program and AWS Truepower, has released new maps that...
Starting in 2012, researchers tried placing spotlights downwind from the 2.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine in Rosemount, Minnesota. The research team...
The Energy Department today announced $4.5 million for four projects to help increase deployment of innovative wind power technologies by...
The Energy Department today announced a new report showing steady progress for the U.S. offshore wind energy industry over the past year. The...
The growth of wind-generated power in the United States is creating greater demand for improved wind forecasts. To address this need, the...
