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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has launched a program to facilitate the loan of two AXYS WindSentinel buoys that collect a comprehensive set of meteorological and oceanographic data to qualified parties for the purpose of continuing to acquire wind resource characterization data to support offshore wind energy development.

A new report from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory provides a first-of-its-kind assessment of the potential future growth of distributed wind energy in the United States through 2050.

The National Offshore Wind Strategy: Facilitating the Development of the Offshore Wind Industry in the United States provides a snapshot of the current state of the industry, refinements in resource assessment and cost reduction trajectories, and a roadmap for how the Departments of Energy and the Interior can support the industry's future growth and success.

Annual reports analyzing the wind energy industry show continued rapid growth in wind power installations in 2015, demonstrating market resilience and underscoring the vitality of the U.S. wind energy market on a global scale.

A new study used high-performance computing capabilities and innovative visualization tools to model, in unprecedented detail, how the power grid of the eastern United States could operationally accommodate higher levels of wind and solar photovoltaic generation.