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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) held an informational webinar on Monday, October 22 to discuss the Collegiate Wind Competition.
Sandia researchers demonstrated that modulating the rotation speed of wind turbine rotors can offer two important grid services.

To improve wind forecast accuracy, WETO funded the second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2).

A study from LBNL finds that the market value of offshore wind generally exceeds that of land-based wind in the region.

A new study by Sandia National Laboratories looks at the feasibility for deep-water offshore installations of a less-common wind turbine design.

WETO commissioned Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to deploy two research buoys off the New Jersey and Virginia coasts.

Researchers from PNNL have come up with a novel way to integrate that stereo vision feature into software.
Letter from the Wind Energy Technologies Office Acting Director from the Fall 2018 Wind R&D Newsletter.

NREL researchers received a four-year extension of IEA research that will advance the overall accuracy of offshore wind computer modeling tools.
NREL has issued a Request for Proposal for colleges and universities interested in participating in the DOE Collegiate Wind Competition 2020.