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Offshore Wind
Resources
- Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW) Program Update (44 downloads)
- Visualizing Wind Farm Wakes Using SCADA Data (47 downloads)
- Application of the Darrieus Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine to Synchronus Electrical Power Generation (68 downloads)
- Economic Analysis of Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Systems for the Generation of Utility Grid Electrical Power System: Volume IV - Summary and Analysis of the A.T. Kearney and Alcoa Laboratories (68 downloads)
- A User's Manual for the Computer Code PAREP (68 downloads)
Sandia’s Test Technology Enables Development of Novel Multi-Rotor Wind Turbine
When Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S decided to build a multi-rotor wind turbine, it used a hardware emulation system developed by Sandia National Laboratories to create, configure, and test the controls system. [...]
First Wake Data Captured During Wake Steering Experiment at the SWiFT Facility
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have met a major project milestone as part of the Department of Energy Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) Wake Steering Experiment being conducted at [...]
Sandia highlighted at the 2016 American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Conference, May 23-26th
3-D Printed Blade Mold on Display at the Department of Energy Booth at American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)Â WindPower Conference Stop by AWEA booth #4847 to see a revolutionary 3-D-printed blade mold designed to reduce [...]
Wind Team Briefs NNSA Administrator Lieutenant General Frank Klotz
A team from Sandia’s Wind Energy Technologies department recently briefed Lieutenant General Frank Klotz, the DOE Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration). The briefing covered Sandia’s offshore [...]