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Below are stories about research efforts featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office.
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Wind power capacity in the United States continued to experience strong growth in 2017.
Wind generation can create exciting opportunities and interesting challenges when integrating large quantities of energy into the electric grid.
Funding in U.S. wind energy has averaged nearly $13.6 billion annually since 2006, totaling more than $140 billion.
A recent Pacific Northwest National Laboratory report is the first of its kind to benchmark costs for small wind projects installed in the U.S.
A study led by LBNL provides unprecedented insight into the attitudes of Americans who live near U.S. wind turbines.
A comprehensive, regularly updated data set of U.S. wind turbine locations and characteristics is now publicly available.
NREL researchers have been leading an international effort to validate offshore wind models.
New breakthroughs could cut the cost of wind energy in half by 2030—making it fully competitive with the fuel cost of natural gas.
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...
The Energy Department today released a report which confirms that adding even limited electricity transmission can significantly reduce the costs of expanding wind energy to supply 35% of U.S. electricity by 2050. The report, titled Reducing Wind Curta...