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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 Welcomes Its First Student
This January, ARROW welcomes its first student, Arash Khojaste, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts industrial engineering program. Arash is developing models to enable the seamless integration of renewable energy, with a particular focus on offshore wind, into the electricity grid. These models provide strategic guidance for investing in backup and firming resources,…
ARROW Teaches ELEVATE Students Wind Turbine Basics
ARROW Faculty Sanjay Arwade and David Schmitt taught a module on wind turbine blade pitch and yaw to a group of 15 trans-disciplinary students at UMass Amherst. Using model turbines, the students adjusted blade pitch, and rotor yaw, and tried moving turbines together to understand how these factors effected energy production. All students, be they…
ARROW Presents and Represents at NOWRDC
ARROW faculty Andy Myers from Northeastern University presented the results of his work on “Ensuring Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation” as part of a session on Proactive Risk Mitigation at the NOWRDC meeting in Washington, DC.
ARROW Faculty Hosts NSF-funded Workshop on Offshore Geotechnics for OSW
ARROW faculty member, Zachary Westgate, hosted an NSF-funded workshop on offshore geotechnics for off-shore wind. This workshop brought together a diverse group of experts in seabed characterization, offshore wind development, and data science to tackle the urgent challenges of advancing sustainable energy solutions. Participants, including academics, offshore wind developers, consultants, contractors, and government regulators, explored…
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,…