Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy Technology and Microgrid Testing Webinar March 13, 2024 11:40 am Join experts from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department as they host, “Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy... View Article
Don’t set it and forget it — scan it and fix it with tech that detects wind blade damage July 1, 2019 6:05 pm by Kristen Meub, photo by Randy Montoya Sandia’s crawling robots, drones detect damage to save wind blades Drones and crawling... View Article
First Wake Data Captured During Wake Steering Experiment at the SWiFT Facility July 14, 2016 7:22 pm Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have met a major project milestone as part... View Article
SWiFT Site Atmospheric Characterization March 24, 2016 5:36 pm Site atmospheric conditions have been analyzed by members of Sandia’s Wind Energy Technologies Department to characterize the magnitude and frequency... View Article
Aerodynamic Wind-Turbine Blade Design for the National Rotor Testbed November 13, 2015 12:40 am Sandia has designed a new wind-turbine blade for the National Rotor Testbed (NRT) project and for future experiments at the... View Article
SWiFT Facility Prepared for More-Efficient Operations & Advanced Turbine-Turbine Wake-Interaction-Control Research October 16, 2015 11:19 pm This past summer, activities at the DOE/SNL Scaled Wind-Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility picked up in preparation for an enhanced, more-efficient... View Article
Sandia Wake-Imaging System Successfully Deployed at Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility September 18, 2015 10:54 pm The Sandia Wake-Imaging System (SWIS) was deployed for a full-scale field demonstration at the Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT)... View Article
Sandia Modifies Delft3D Turbine Model July 29, 2015 11:28 pm Delft3D is a state-of-the-art, open-source hydrodynamics software suite capable of modeling hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and water quality in rivers, lakes,... View Article
National Rotor Testbed Rotor Design Integrated Airfoil Performance Results February 24, 2015 11:58 am The National Rotor Testbed (NRT) team is examining the effect of airfoil choice on the final design of the new... View Article