Mission

• Establish a National Wind Energy R&D Center (NWEC) in Texas
• Develop a National Large Wind Turbine Research and Test Facility in Houston
• Conduct R&D to Accelerate Design and Deployment of New Generations of Wind Turbine Systems

Goals

• 3-Year
  Cost-effectiveness Improvement and deployment of wind energy systems onshore and along the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) coast
• 7-Year
  R&D, design and deployment of next-generation wind turbine systems onshore and in deepwater