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Department of Energy wind and Water Power Technologies Office Funding in the United States: OFFSHORE wind PROJECTSFiscal Years 2006 - 2014WIND AND WATER POWER TECHNOLOGIES OFFICEWIND AND WATER POWER TECHNOLOGIES OFFICEWIND AND WATER POWER TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE1IntroductionWind and Water Power Technologies OfficeThe wind and Water Power Technologies Office (WWPTO), within the Department of Energy s (DOE s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), supports the development, deployment, and commercialization of wind and water power technologies. WWPTO works with a variety of stakeholders to identify and support research and development (R&D) efforts that improve technology performance, lower costs, and ultimately deploy technologies that efficiently capture the abundant wind and water energy resources in the United States. The WWPTO is one office that contains two distinct focus areas: wind and water.

mates that the technical offshore wind resource potential from state and federal waters along the United States and the Great Lakes coasts is more than 4,000 gigawatts (GW).1 While not all of this potential can be realistically developed due to certain restrictions (e.g., competing uses, environmentally sensitive areas), with 50% of the

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