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New Offshore Wind Center of Excellence – ARROW announced

This story was originally published by the UMass News Office. The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to establish and lead the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), a new multimillion-dollar national center of excellence to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment…

ARROW@NAWEA/WindTech

Many ARROW members are attending the 2024 NAWEA/WindTech Conference at Rutgers in New Jersey.  NAWEA/WindTech is a major annual meeting for presenting and discussing research related to OSW.  ARROW members presented work on the atmosphere, the sea, turbines and support structures as well as participating in high-level discussions with NAWEA organizing committees and DOE personnel.

Professor Matthew Lackner Interviewed for Wall Street Journal

Arrow Professor Matthew Lackner was interviewed by the WSJ to provide his expertise on the potential of small scale wind technology. While a startups are pitching small scale wind technologies such as turbines for roofs similar to residential solar, Professor Matthew Lackner argues that we should focus resources on existing technology. “What we need is…

ARROW Leadership meets with Mass CEC, CEE, and state legislators

ARROW leadership Matthew Lackner and Zoe Getman Pickering met with the CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Emily Reichert, as well as Representative Mindy Domb and Senator Joanne Comerford. Matthew Lackner and Sanjay Arwade expressed their appreciation of past support and discussed with Dr. Reichert, Representative Domb and Senator Comerford avenues for future collaboration.

New England News Collaborative Calls on ARROW for Background on OSW

Prof. Sanjay Arwade was the guest of the New England News Collaborative on a boat tour of the Vineyard 1 OSW project on Monday September 16th. Reporters from WBUR, WCAI, WGBH, Maine Public Radio, Rhode Island Public Radio and Rhode Island PBS went to sea to see the wind farm up-close and in-person and to…

Empower

ARROW-Empower is the educational arm of ARROW designed to empower the next generation of US-based OSW professionals, enhance the ability of US institutions to deliver comprehensive OSW education and establish global leadership for the US in OSW education. 

Engage

ARROW-Engage encompasses the outreach aspects and Community Benefits aspects of the center, especially diversity, energy equity and workforce development initiatives. ARROW’s holistic approach integrates these engagement initiatives into the fabric of its operations, educational programs, research initiatives, stakeholder engagements, and community relationships. ARROW-Engage tasks are integrated with and support research within ARROW-Innovate and Education within ARROW-Empower.

Innovate

ARROW-Innovate is the research arm of ARROW and focuses a rich OSW research environment at ARROW institutions on the characterization and reduction of uncertainty across the OSW system. Key objectives of ARROW-Innovate are increased reliability and the interjection of targeted solutions for OSW resilience. The expertise of the ARROW team covers the areas of infrastructure,…