The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) is to expand its research to include marine hydrokinetic and energy storage. NWTC's new facility will be located in the Gulf of Mexico off Corpus Christi, Texas, with a focus on developing technologies for offshore wind power generation.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) is to expand its research to include marine hydrokinetic and energy storage. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has ambitions to see the NWTC facility move away from solely testing wind technologies to look at a variety of renewables.