Texas A&M University Wins $2.2M Award To Foster Offshore Wind

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Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, has announced the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) is awarding $2.2 million to the Texas A&M University Wind Energy Center for a collaborative project that brings together researchers from universities across the state to develop and increase the capacity of offshore wind energy technology and help bring it to market. Texas A&M is also a partner in the GoWind consortium, and the governor says the award could help realize GoWind's three-turbine, 18 MW offshore wind demonstration project in the Gulf of Mexico.

‘Texas leads the nation in wind energy production, generating more wind power than all but five nations, and this investment will support an important collaboration between our universities and the growth of our offshore wind capabilities," says Perry.

The TETF award will support the development of new offshore wind farms, turbines and platform technologies in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Offshore Wind Advanced Technology Demonstration Project.


Texas-based Baryonyx Corp., which leads GoWind, was one of seven developers awarded DOE grants to explore offshore wind projects in state and federal waters. The developer is now competing to receive a $47 million follow-up DOE grant and says the project will receive the state funds only if it wins the new federal funding.

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