U.S. Department of Energy
DOE’s WETO invests in energy science research and development (R&D) activities that enable the innovations needed to advance U.S. wind systems, while continuing to address market and deployment barriers including siting and environmental impacts. WETO is dedicated to driving down the cost of wind energy with more efficient, more reliable, and more predictable wind energy systems.
WETO works with national laboratories, industry, universities, and other agencies to conduct R&D activities through competitively selected, directly funded, and cost-shared projects. WETO’s efforts target both land-based and offshore wind power—including utility-scale and distributed systems—and focus on novel research not being undertaken by the U.S. wind industry owing to high perceived costs or risks or an industry focus on near-term investment returns.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBNL is a member of the national laboratory system supported by DOE through its Office of Science. It is managed by the University of California and charged with conducting unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines. The researchers who helped develop the USWTDB are part of LBNL’s Electricity Markets and Policy Group (EMP). EMP informs public and private decision making within the U.S. electricity sector through independent, interdisciplinary analysis of critical electricity policy and market issues.
LBNL’s contribution to this project is made possible through support from WETO within DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
American Clean Power Association
American Clean Power is the voice of the clean power industry that is powering America’s future, providing cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis while creating jobs, spurring massive investment in the U.S. economy and driving high-tech innovation across the nation. We are uniting the power of America’s renewable energy industry to advance our shared goals and to transform the U.S. power grid to a low-cost, reliable and renewable power system. Learn more about the benefits clean power brings to America at https://cleanpower.org/.
USGS Energy Resources Program
The USGS Energy Resources Program (ERP) addresses the challenge of increasing demand for energy sources by studying and assessing the resources of the geologic energy sources, such as oil and gas, coal, gas hydrates and geothermal. The USGS ERP is also involved in studying the impacts of wind and environmental effects of resource extraction, use and development. The results of USGS research and USGS data are used to inform policymakers regarding domestic and foreign energy resources and to manage energy resources on Federal lands.
The USGS scientists who contributed to USWTDB brought expertise in geospatial systems, mapping, and energy resource assessments to create a unified database viewer.