UMass Receives Funding For Wind Energy Research

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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has awarded a $260,000 grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell's Wind Energy Research Group.

The grant includes $115,000 for a graduate student program, in conjunction with MassCEC's Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown. The grant also provides $100,000 to support the continued development of an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for which UMass Lowell is seeking funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

If the NSF funds the center, the grant provides an additional $45,000 for MassCEC's membership in the center.


"The research center will further strengthen the wind energy research cluster here in Massachusetts by bringing together the university and private developers to reach a common goal," says MassCEC CEO Alicia Barton McDevitt. "Training the next generation of researchers will accelerate the development of the next generation of high-performance wind energy technologies designed to generate even more clean power from a single turbine."

More than 50 wind technology companies have expressed interest in joining the research center, which will serve to bring together those in the industry with the students and professors of UMass Lowell.

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