Wind Power / Research projects
Understanding Community Benefits from Offshore Wind Development
Investigating the roles, motivations, and experiences of community entities and professionals who have designed and negotiated local benefit agreements in the context of offshore wind development.
Community Perceptions of Energy Justice within Offshore Wind Development in the US Northeast
Investigating community perceptions of the energy justice dimensions of offshore wind development in the Northeast US.
Offshore Wind and Energy Justice in the Mid-Atlantic: coastal communities, energy transitions, and fish processors
Investigating community perceptions of offshore wind development in the Mid-Atlantic through the lens of energy justice, focusing on coastal communities, members of an energy transition community, and those working in fish processing.
Energy Justice Indicators: Measuring Community Effects of Offshore Wind Energy Development
Collaborating with frontline communities to co-produce and track social indicators of energy equity and justice for offshore wind development along the US east coast.
Advancing Transformational Energy Justice across the Renewable Energy Supply Chain
The project employs a whole systems approach to energy transitions, integrating theory and insights from spatial justice, energy geography, political ecology, Indigenous energy justice, and antiracist scholarship to advance an interdisciplinary approach to the whole supply chain comprising the U.S. transition to solar and wind power.
Atlantic Wind Consortium
Created an industry-university consortium and a program of graduate study in offshore wind power
Improving the Mapping and Prediction of Offshore Wind Resources (IMPOWR)
Improving the treatment of the boundary layer winds in mesoscale models via measurements and ensemble modeling.
Industrializing Offshore Wind
Developing a cost-optimized integrated system design of an offshore wind plant
Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Interconnection and Transmission (MAOWIT)
Improving the treatment of the boundary layer winds in mesoscale models via measurements and ensemble modeling
EPSCoR
The target of this research is to reduce costs and properly address issues associated with geotechnical property and environmental risks in the offshore wind areas in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
Offshore Wind Impacts on Beach Recreation
Measuring the impact of offshore wind projects on beach recreation
Maryland and Delaware Choice Experiment
Studying the willingness of Delaware and Maryland residents to pay a premium for offshore wind power generated electricity
Delaware and New Jersey Public Perceptions
Examining public perceptions of local residents who may be effected by offshore wind projects in Delaware and New Jersey
Local Engagement About Renewable Energy in Delaware and Maryland
The University of Delaware sponsored research and knowledge exchanges with local stakeholders and decision makers about the two proposed offshore wind sites .
Block Island Offshore Wind Project Social Survey
Studying Rhode Island coastal residents perceptions of the United States’ first offshore wind installation.
NSF CoPe Workshop
Community Resiliency in the Face of Coastal Hazards and the Renewable Energy Transition
