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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.

REpowering Schools is partnering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to offer seed-funding for wind energy projects.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory released a Notice of Intent to provide funds to address gaps in information on the real-world benefits and usage of grid-enhancing technologies.

The U.S. Departments of Energy, the Interior, Transportation, and Commerce will host the first-ever Floating Offshore Wind Shot Summit to discuss this ambitious initiative to reduce the cost of floating offshore wind energy.

Rounding out this year’s featured Renewable Energy Champions is earth scientist Mark Severy of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

DOE announced twenty-four incubators and accelerators across the country that were each awarded $50,000 in the American-Made Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize Round 2.

The first-ever prize from WETO, the FLOWIN Prize will help pave the way for the cost-effective domestic manufacture and deployment of commercial utility-scale floating offshore wind energy turbines in U.S. waters.

This year’s Technology Commercialization Fund is currently accepting submissions aimed at accelerating the commercialization of critical renewable energy technologies.

WETO is supporting an open call and invites applications for technology innovations that address technology gaps for distributed, land-based, and offshore wind.