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Learn more about efforts to develop America's vast offshore wind resources.
$11.2 million program to pilot solutions for managing renewable energy and electric vehicle charging interconnection and energization queues.

WETO and the National Science Foundation Award Funding to Accelerate Floating Offshore Wind Research
Johns Hopkins University and Portland State University received funding from the National Science Foundation and WETO on a project that will help unlock the vast potential of floating offshore wind farms in the United States.
$10.6 million funding opportunity focused on addressing near-term challenges in U.S. Offshore Wind Sector to accelerate U.S. floating offshore wind.

The Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI) has published a comprehensive Request for Proposals (RFP) for research pathways across three application areas, including offshore wind energy.
Nearly $50 million funding available for projects that address several major areas of need for offshore wind.

DOE is collaborating on an 18-month initiative to gather extensive weather, ocean, and wildlife data near the sites of active offshore wind farms and lease areas off the coast of the Northeast United States.
Maher supports WETO as an Offshore Wind Senior Technical Advisor.

DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy recently selected four wind-energy-related projects for Small Business Innovation Research Phase I funding. The announcement is part of DOE-wide awards totaling $54 million.

With three recently installed small wind turbines at the Flatirons Campus in Colorado, WETO is poised to take the next step in proving and improving the next generation of distributed wind technologies.