Sandia’s Test Technology Enables Development of Novel Multi-Rotor Wind Turbine November 7, 2016 9:25 pm When Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S decided to build a multi-rotor wind turbine, it used a hardware... 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
New CREW Database Receives First Set of Data November 13, 2015 12:46 am Sandia’s Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW) project has received its first large set of data, which reassessed its data-collection... 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
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation—Inaugural Members Meeting October 16, 2015 11:43 pm Sandia Wind Department technical staff members Josh Paquette and Brian Naughton attended the inaugural members meeting for the newly formed Institute... 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
Version 24 of the Composite Materials Database Now Available for Download September 23, 2015 7:17 pm Wind-turbine blade growth continues to have the largest impact on energy capture and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) reduction. While... View Article
New Small Business Voucher Pilot Opens September 23, 2015 4:53 pm The highly anticipated Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot opens for business today. Through the pilot, small businesses... 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