Increasing the viability of wind energy technology by applying research to improve wind turbine performance and reliability

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Rotor Innovation

Advancing rotor technology such that they capture more energy, more reliably, with relatively lower system loads—all at a lower end cost.

SWiFT Facility & Testing

Improving the performance and reducing the cost of wind energy by addressing complex system issues associated with wind plants.

Materials, Reliability & Standards

Improving wind-turbine blade manufacturing quality and determining the most cost-effective methods to mitigate environmental damage.

Siting & Barrier Mitigation

Investigating both wind turbines and radars for techniques to help mitigate the radar-interference.
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Offshore Wind

Reducing technology risk, siting offshore turbines and wind farms, and reducing offshore wind’s cost of energy.
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Resources

Wind & Water Power Newsletter

This newsletter highlights key activities, articles on current research projects, latest reports, papers, and events published by Sandia. This monthly newsletter is intended for wind industry partners, stakeholders, universities and potential partners.

Workshops

Sandia hosts several Wind Workshops that bring together wind energy professionals from industry, universities, and national laboratories to discuss challenges, issues, and solutions for wind turbine blades.

Software

Computational tools used to significantly improve the structural and aeroelastic analysis capability available to the wind industry.

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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)  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 [...]