Below are stories about research efforts featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office.
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March 9, 2023
Distributed Wind Energy Brings Value to Remote and Rural Communities
Project analyzes the many benefits of distributed wind for communities across the United States.
February 23, 2023
Buoy in Hawai’i Collects Data on Wind Conditions
WETO and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s floating scientific research buoy is stationed in Hawai'i to collect offshore wind resource, meteorological, and oceanographic data that can be used to compare wind model predictions with actual data.
February 19, 2023
DOE Report Helps Illuminate West Coast Offshore Wind Transmission Needs
WETO has published a West Coast Offshore Wind Transmission Literature Review and Gaps Analysis to address challenges facing the interconnecting of large wind farms to coastal substations and transmission infrastructure.
February 13, 2023
Wind Energy End of Service Guide Now Available
What happens when a wind energy project reaches the end of its service? WETO's new guide provides a detailed explanation.
February 13, 2023
New Analysis Reveals Surging Interconnection Costs and Demands
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s analysis of the PJM Interconnection found substantial interconnection cost increases and tremendous growth of PJM’s interconnection project queue.
February 9, 2023
WETO-Funded Research Focuses on Reducing Cybersecurity Threats to Nation’s Wind Fleet
WETO-funded research teams from three national laboratories are working proactively to strengthen security measures, policies, and information technology infrastructure.
January 23, 2023
2022 Elevated Wind Energy to New Heights
Last year brought many advances in wind energy. Here are the most influential wind energy stories from 2022 from the Wind Energy Technologies Office.
January 23, 2023
National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium Announces U.S. Offshore Wind Supply Chain Road Map
The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium released a report identifying how the United States can develop a robust and equitable domestic supply chain required to achieve the national offshore wind target of 30 gigawatts by 2030.
January 22, 2023
Researchers Work to Better Understand Wind Turbine Interactions with Other Turbines and the Atmosphere
The American WAKE experimeNt, an international, multi-institutional effort to gather the most comprehensive data-set to date on how individual wind turbines interact with one another and the atmosphere on a wind farm, is well underway.
November 22, 2022
Compact Wind Turbines Could Support Disaster Relief and Military Missions
This DOE-funded project analyzes how to build a wind turbine that could serve both military and humanitarian missions around the world.