Articles about Wind Program Analysis

WETO-funded research teams from three national laboratories are working proactively to strengthen security measures, policies, and information technology infrastructure.

Last year brought many advances in wind energy. Here are the most influential wind energy stories from 2022 from the Wind Energy Technologies Office.

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.

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.

This DOE-funded project analyzes how to build a wind turbine that could serve both military and humanitarian missions around the world.

DOE Requests Information on Floating Offshore Wind Energy Mooring and Anchoring

In a collaborative study published in Wind Energy Science, a team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory examined offshore wind energy challenges and laid out future approaches to meet them.

The use of concrete support structures for offshore wind turbines offers many potential advantages over towers comprised of only steel, including greater durability, a longer lifespan, increased local labor opportunities, and much quieter installations.

A new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory published in the journal iScience uses a new methodology to predict patterns for utility-scale wind and solar energy costs and concludes that they will progressively decline in the coming years.

The U.S. wind industry installed 13,413 megawatts (MW) of new wind capacity in 2021, bringing the cumulative total to 135,886 MW.