With the United States in need of increased energy independence and energy security, the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW) has been founded by the US Department of Energy, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Maryland Energy Administration to educate the next generation of professional OSW workers and deliver innovations that reduce cost and increase benefits to consumers.
ARROW emerged from a Congressionally mandated solicitation process overseen by DoE and is funded through 2027, with renewal through 2029 possible, and kicked off formal operations in January of 2025.
Objectives
ARROW’s overarching objectives are:
Establish a broadly comprehensive and multi-pronged OSW education and research program designed to prepare the next generation of US OSW professionals and establish global leadership for the US in OSW education,
Empower the first cohorts of this next-generation US OSW workforce to seed a reliable and resilient, domestically educated, OSW professional workforce.
Deliver innovations to accelerate reductions in OSW levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and ensure that the OSW system delivers energy in a reliable and resilient manner.
Core Partners
ARROW’s lead institution is:
UMass Amherst
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and is joined by core academic partners:
Clemson University, South Carolina
Clemson University is a leading public research institution located in Upstate South Carolina. Here, researchers create solutions that change the world.
Morgan State University: Maryland’s Preeminent Public Urban Research University
Morgan State University – Maryland’s Preeminent Urban Public Research University
Home | Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America’s first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university
Home – Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
UMass Dartmouth
A national research university, UMass Dartmouth offers distinctive bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees on an innovation-rich campus.
UMass Lowell
UMass Lowell, a midsized public research university located north of Boston, offers full- and part-time students bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs online and on campus.
UPRM Research – Research, Innovation & Creative Endeavors
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus
and core lab partners:
Argonne National Laboratory Homepage | Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory’s two powerhouse research tools — Aurora and the upgraded Advanced Photon Source — will work together to accelerate discovery for clean energy and decarbonization, fighting climate change, biology and the life sciences, medicine and human health, and new materials for transportation, energy, and electronic devices.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Home Page
The only federal laboratory dedicated to research, development, commercialization, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL advances the frontiers of knowledge, taking on some of the world’s greatest science and technology challenges.
Funding Partners
Funding for ARROW is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Wind Energy Technology Office (WETO), as well as the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA).
Contributing programs/centers/institutes at core partners
ARROW’s strength drawn from centers and programs at core partners
ARROW was developed in partnership with a rich array of centers, institutes, and programs at the core partnering universities and labs. A partial list of these partners is provided here to provide an overview of the wide variety of efforts that collaborate with ARROW in implementing its mission. We encourage you to visit and learn more about our partners and their excellent work in supporting the energy transition to offshore wind. University of Massachusetts – Amherst Johns Hopkins University University of Massachusetts – Lowell University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth Northeastern University
Affiliates
Western New England University
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Stony Brook University
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UMass Boston
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UC Davis
UC Davis innovates to address the world’s most challenging problems and educates tomorrow’s leaders.
The Pennsylvania State University
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Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) Award Number DE-EE0011269.”
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