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The Wind Energy Technologies Office launched an interactive, state-by-state map highlighting their Research and Development portfolio. Browse through more than 200 projects, including offshore wind research and demonstration, grid integration studies, and environmental assessments funded through cooperative agreements with business, industry, and laboratories.

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.

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.