Blade Reliability & Composite Materials December 22, 2021 8:56 am Improving wind-turbine blade manufacturing quality and determining the most cost-effective methods to mitigate environmental damage. Unplanned maintenance and component failures... View Article
Rotor Reliability December 22, 2021 8:54 am Rotor Reliability Blade Materials and Substructures Testing Wind turbine blades are subjected to a higher number of complex loading cycles... View Article
Rotor Blade Sensors and Instrumentation December 22, 2021 8:50 am Why Rotor Instrumentation? During a wind turbine’s operational lifetime, its rotor blades endure a wide variety of wind loading. The... View Article
Rotor Design Tools December 22, 2021 8:42 am Sandia develops computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools with capabilities driven by the needs of current research projects. Rotor design is supported... View Article
Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database December 22, 2021 8:40 am eval_id: Simulation number The Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database is divided into six files, each corresponding to approximately 16 years... View Article
Rotor Design December 22, 2021 8:35 am Advanced rotor concepts—from aerodynamics to instrumentation—offer great potential for further improving wind plant performance and reducing energy costs. Sandia leads... View Article
Grid Integration and Power Systems December 22, 2021 8:01 am Sandia leverages expertise and capabilities across the laboratory to investigate the integration, operation, and control of wind power into energy... View Article
Grid System Planning for Wind: Wind Generator Modeling December 22, 2021 7:57 am Wind generation dominates the interconnection queues and the need for generic, standard, and validated publicly available models, for variable generation... View Article
PV Connectors December 16, 2021 10:40 am Learn how to participate in Sandia National Laboratories’ Failed Connectors Mail-in Program. Mission To increase the robustness of the US... View Article
Remote, energy-challenged communities urged to contact ETIPP Partner Network December 8, 2021 10:00 am Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power and Renewable Energy and Distributed Systems Integration programs–members of the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project... View Article