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2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, March 1, 2024 • The 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop will be held Sept. 16-20, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers. Speakers and attendees will address the major topics for wind turbine blades, network with colleagues, and...

Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
News Article, August 16, 2022 • New Sandia software allows for design of innovative floating turbines Brandon Ennis, Sandia National Laboratories’ offshore wind technical lead, had a radically new idea for offshore wind turbines: instead of a tall, unwieldy tower with blades at the top, he imagined a towerless turbine with blades pulled taut like a...
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Internship prepares Native students for careers in tribal energy
News Article, September 20, 2023 • Three interns who participated in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy-sponsored student internship program shared their experiences in a recent post published to DOE's website. The program is administered by Sandia — Sandra Begay, a member of the Navajo Nation, has been implementing the program on behalf...
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Offshore wind roadmap addresses operations and maintenance challenges and opportunities
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Offshore Wind Research program recently completed a first-of-its-kind report, “An Operations and Maintenance Roadmap for U.S. Offshore Wind.”  Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the roadmap assesses current operation and...
Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea

Registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, July 1, 2024 • We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop.   To register, please visit the Eventbrite webpage, and keep in mind that your registration is not complete until also paying the registration fee on Sandia Pay. The registration fee is waived for invited speakers and...

Sandia conducts cybersecurity research to reduce threats to nation’s wind fleet
News Article, February 17, 2023 • Wind energy-specific cybersecurity research and development is critical to the defensive protection of wind assets from cyber threats. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) recognizes the need to assess risks and consequences associated with malicious activities—whether physical or cyber—and has prioritized the strengthening of the...

Sandia researcher contributes to Wind report published by National Academy of Sciences
News Article, March 18, 2022 • The National Academy of Sciences recently published the new report, “Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar,” co-written by Sandia wind energy researcher Ben Karlson. While wind energy development is expected to grow along the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf and expand into the Gulf of Mexico and the...

Sandia to host Deployable Wind Power for Defense and Disaster Response Workshop on June 17th
News Article, June 13, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and the University of Dayton Research Institute will present the Deployable Wind Power for Defense and Disaster Response Workshop on June 17, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Stakeholders from the defense and disaster response communities are invited to attend to...

Sandia Wind Energy Technologies Program takes lead for six incubator awards
News Article, November 8, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories received the lead on six new incubator awards announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office on October 20. WETO provided the wind-specific seed funding for a new program to create novel pathways to innovation while allowing the national labs a higher degree of risk...

Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY22 Accomplishments Report
News Article, April 5, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Program has released its Wind Energy Program FY22 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of projects funded by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), DOE Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, and the Sandia Laboratory Directed Research and Development...

Save the Date — 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop: Oct. 17-20, Albuquerque, NM
News Article, March 1, 2022 • Save the Date! When: October 17—20, 2022 Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Please mark your calendars for the return of the Sandia Blade Workshop, in-person and in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 17-20, 2022. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers to address...

Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Call is now open
News Article, June 17, 2024 • Do you know an entrepreneur, innovator, or community partner looking for technical assistance to bring their technology to market? Consider sharing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call. The new $2.1 million opportunity will make $100,000 vouchers available to innovators, entrepreneurs,...
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