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U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Energy Technologies Office and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Announce $6.25 million for Aerodynamics Research on Large Wind Turbines

The 12 finalist teams will compete throughout the spring and present their work during the American Power Association's CLEANPOWER 2025 Conference and Exhibition.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the West Coast Offshore Wind Transmission Study and Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Development in the U.S. West Coast Region.

DOE’s RAISE initiative is supporting a regionally-focused Rural Electric Cooperative Distributed Energy Resource Business Model Development Workshop series.

Report suggests investing in strategies and innovations to process the remaining 10%, supporting reuse and recycling.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs offer competitively awarded grants to small businesses to support scientific excellence and technological innovation.

Funding to collaboratives in Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia will support planning and evaluation of large-scale renewable energy and energy storage projects.

DOE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) funded research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where researchers achieved a milestone building a 6.5-foot turbine blade tip with novel materials.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released final rules for the funding Tax Credit (Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code).

DOE's Office of Electricity and WETO plan to issue the REIMAGINE BREAKERS NOFO to support research and development related to high voltage direct current (HVDC) power circuit breakers.