An experiment successfully demonstrated that the wake from an upwind turbine can be steered away from a downwind turbine by yawing the upwind turbine.
New breakthroughs could cut the cost of wind energy in half by 2030—making it fully competitive with the fuel cost of natural gas.
Severe wind turbine blade leading-edge surface erosion can cause increased wind turbine performance losses that are far greater than anticipated...
Atmospheric Conditions Drive Turbine Wake Behavior at Sandia National Laboratories
Experiment Investigates Steering of Wind Farm Wakes for Improved Performance
Exascale Computing to Support Predictive Wind Flow Modeling
A2e is a consortium of scientists from national laboratories, academia, and industry working to enable innovative wind plant technologies.
An advanced modeling tool funded by the Energy Department is now available to help offshore wind plant developers, wind turbine original equipment manufacturers, and researchers design offshore turbine and foundation systems.
A multiscale atmosphere/wind farm simulation toolkit incorporates the full spectrum of weather, environmental, and turbine impacts.
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) recently reached a major milestone by successfully remounting a rotor on one of its heavily modified Vestas V27...