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The California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted a report establishing offshore wind goals and moving the state one step closer to development of the clean energy resource off California’s coast. Additional transmission infrastructure will be needed to deliver offshore wind energy from this region to the grid.
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million over two years to advance next-generation designs for wind turbine drivetrains. These early research and development projects will focus on reducing the cost of wind energy by increasing component reliability or redesigning drivetrains to eliminate the need for some components altogether. megawatt turbines.
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The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. EERE is the only program Office participating in this FOA.
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This 150 kW PowerBuoy is being fabricated in Scotland and will be deployed in 2010 at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney Isles, Scotland. and Japan Wind Development Co. The generated power is transferred ashore via an underwater power transmission cable. OPT’s latest version is its PB150 PowerBuoy. Earlier post.).
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