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Page • Wind Energy Advancing technology, siting wind farms both on and offshore, and reducing wind’s cost of energy Sandia’s Wind Energy Technologies program leads scientific research that furthers the modernization, reliability and security of our nation’s critical energy assets. As a trusted U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, we strive to advance...

Page • Wind Energy Workshops 2026 Blade Workshop Postponement Announcement Thank you for your interest in Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Blade Workshop. The 2026 event has been postponed due to unforeseen scheduling constraints. We are actively exploring our options for next year, and we appreciate your support. We’ll update this webpage as...

Page • Wind Hybrid Integration Platform (WHIP) The Wind Hybrid Integration Platform project focuses on developing an AI-driven Distributed Energy Resource Management System that leverages the unique capabilities of distributed wind to provide grid services, alongside solar and energy storage technologies. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Wind Energy Technologies...

Page • Wind Interconnection Standards Platform (WISP) The Wind Interconnection Standards Platform project aims to assist the distributed wind industry in overcoming existing barriers for distributed wind power converter in adopting interconnection standards such as IEEE 1547-2018. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Office of Technology Commercialization awarded the...

Page • Wind Plant Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Optimal, accurate experimental design and rigorous data analysis deliver robust validation. Sandia leads robust validation efforts to forward the industry, in particular for complex flow and load problems. Accurate data and sensing is the pathway to smarter wind technologies, where Artificial Intelligence ultimately...

Page • Wind Publications Fiscal Year 2024 Open all | Close all Brown, K., P. Bortolotti, E. Branlard, M. Chetan, S. Dana, N. deVelder, P. Doubrawa, N. Hamilton, H. Ivanov, J. Jonkman, C. Kelley, and D. Zalkind. “One-to-one aeroservoelastic validation of operational loads and performance of a 2.8 MW wind turbine model...

Page • Wind Software Downloads Sandia maintains ongoing efforts to develop computational tools to significantly improve the structural and aeroelastic analysis capability available to the wind industry. These analytical capabilities may be used to guide the design of new blades as well as to verify/improve the design of existing blades. The validity...

Page • Work With Us Sandia National Laboratories’ energy programs partner with large and small businesses, universities, and government agencies. With multiple agreement types to select from, partners can access world-class science, engineering, experts, and infrastructure. Get to know Sandia’s history and mission. Explore Sandia’s energy-related programs, cutting-edge facilities, and Technology Deployment Centers. Browse partnership success...

Page • Recent Workshops 2024 Sandia-EPRI Hosted PV Connector Reliability Workshop Day 2, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 Session 1: View From the Trenches Why this Workshop/Why NowLaurie BurnhamSandiaAn EPC PerspectiveKyle PhelpsMcCarthyAn Independent Engineer’s OutlookBill BrooksBrooks EngineeringAn Asset Owners Perspective: Solar Connectors and Grass FiresCraig RichardsonEntergy Session 2: Connector Failures: Field and Lab...

Page • Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation (WTRIM) The Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation project, or WTRIM, is aimed at solving deployment barriers for wind-energy systems by testing and evaluating mitigation methods which reduce or eliminate wind turbine effects on radar systems. This effort includes collaboration with industry; five government organizations, including...