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The Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC) in Boston, Massachusetts, now offers a full suite of certification tests for turbine blades up to 90 m in length as the state-of-the-art facility opened May 18, 2011.
Advanced Manufacturing Initiative Improves Turbine Blade Productivity
DOE-DOI Strategy Seeks to Harness U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Potential
This is an excerpt from the Second Quarter 2011 edition of the Wind Program R&D Newsletter.
On March 16, 2011, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory hosted a kick-off meeting for Phase 2 of the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study (WWSIS).
As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, DOE is investing up to $20.3 million in innovative projects to strengthen the U.S. solar manufacturing industry, improve manufacturing efficiencies, and reduce costs. This includes suppor...
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced additional details of the Department of Energy's "SunShot" initiative to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost competitive at large scale with oth...
As part of the Department's commitment to support innovative solar energy technologies, DOE is investing up to $7 million to fund the latest round of the successful Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Incubator Program. Under the PV Incubator program, DOE helps to...
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories is investing $8.5 million for four projects that have reached Stage III of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) program. ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced today that the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) will serve as the National Administrator for the Solar Instructor Training Network (SITN) to help ensure the development of a robust national ...