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Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility

DOE Completes Construction of State-of-the-Art Wind Plant Performance Facility

On April 17, 2013, in Energy, Events, News & Events, Partnership, Renewable Energy, SWIFT, Wind Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy and Vestas R&D have completed construction of a new state-of-the-art wind plant research facility at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility is the first U.S. facility specifically designed and constructed to tackle the challenges of the DOE Wind Farm of the Future program. [...]


Sandia Labs Wind Farm Adds Vestas Turbine

On June 1, 2012, in Energy, News, News & Events, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy

The initial phase of Sandia National Laboratories’ Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWIFT) facility, currently being constructed in partnership with Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be larger than originally planned. Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems (Aarhus, Denmark) will add its own 300 kW, V27 research turbine to the two Sandia V27 research turbines. [...]


Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility

On January 17, 2012, in

A New Facility for Rapid Testing and Development By the end of FY12, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) will have completed the development of the Scaled WInd Farm Technology (SWIFT) Facility, hosted at Texas Tech University, to enable rapid, cost-efficient testing and development of transformative wind energy technology. SWIFT’s [...]


Last Updated: February 28, 2013
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