Wind Energy Program Newsletter: First Quarter 2012
This U.S. Department of Energy Wind Program Newsletter provides our partners and industry stakeholders with recent news about the program's R&D projects, its accomplishments, upcoming events, funding opportunities, and recent publications.
Turbines in U.S. Waters Will Soon Spin Wind into Electricity
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Offshore wind turbine on floating platform.
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DOE releases Offshore Demonstration Project Solicitation
The U.S. Department of Energy Wind Program is joining forces with other federal and state government agencies, international partners, industry, technology leaders, and the interested public to address the many challenges faced in capturing the offshore wind resource potential. More.
Program Highlights
- Wind and Water Power Program Realignment
- Wind Powering America Hosts Fifth Annual Wind for Schools Summit
R&D News
- DOE Releases EPRI Report on Benefits of Regional Coordination in Wind Energy Transfers
- LBNL/NREL Analysis Predicts Record Low LCOE for Wind Energy in 2012-2013
- PNNL Reviews Wildlife-Interaction Monitoring for Offshore Wind Farms — Technology Hybrids Show Best Potential
- NREL Releases Alpha-Version of MLife
Wind Program Events
- WPA Webinar: Markets for Wind Energy Development
- Tribal Webinar: Understanding the Interconnection and Transmission Service Queues
- Offshore Wind Energy Lessons Learned Workshop
- WPA Webinar: Technology Update
- WPA Webinar: Careers in Wind Energy
- Tribal Webinar: Today's Energy Supply - Yesterday's Grid
Wind Industry Events
For a listing of industry events, visit Wind Powering America.
- U.S. Offshore Wind Market and Supply Chain Workshop
- IPU Grid School
- IPU Demand Forecasting School
- Tech Advantage 2012
- AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit — Midwest
- Southeastern Coastal Wind Conference
- AWEA Wind Power Transmission Seminar
- Distributed Wind 2012
- NABCEP Continuing Education Conference
- AWEA Wind Finance and Investment Seminar
- UWIG Spring Technical Workshop and Annual Meeting
- AWEA WINDPOWER
- Wind Turbine Design and Construction (Homebrew Wind)
Recent Publications
- Development and Testing of Improved Statistical Wind Power Forecasting Methods, Argonne National Laboratory
- Failure Atlas for Rolling Bearings in Wind Turbines, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- IEA Wind Task 24 Integration of Wind and Hydropower Systems; Volume 1: Issues, Impacts, and Economics of Wind and Hydropower Integration. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- IEA Wind Task 24 Integration of Wind and Hydropower Systems; Volume 2: Participant Case Studies. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- "Inflow Characterization and Aerodynamics Measurements on a SWT-2.3-101 Wind Turbine," Preprint. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
- Operating Reserves and Variable Generation, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- "Time-Adaptive Quantile-Copula for Wind Power Probabilistic Forecasting," Renewable Energy, Volume 40, Issue 1, April 2012
- The Impact of High Wind Power Penetrations on Hydroelectric Unit Operations in the WWSIS, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Use of Wind Power Forecasting in Operational Decisions, Argonne National Laboratory
- "Wind Power Forecasting Uncertainty and Unit Commitment," Applied Energy, Volume 88, Issue 11, November 2011.
- "Wind Power Trading Under Uncertainty in LMP Markets," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Issue 99
- Wind Turbine Drivetrain Condition Monitoring During GRC Phase 1 and Phase 2 Testing, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Financial Opportunities
- US Offshore Wind: Advanced Technology Demonstration Projects — This financial opportunity will make available up to $180 million over six years, subject to congressional appropriations, including an initial commitment of $20 million in fiscal year 2012. The Department will focus this latest research and demonstration initiative on highly innovative technologies that will achieve large cost reductions over existing offshore wind technologies.
- DOE's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Funding Opportunities