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An NREL study explores opportunities for increasing wind turbine hub height and the conditions and locations where these towers have the most impact.
Letter from the Wind Energy Technologies Office Acting Director from the Spring 2019 newsletter.
Accurate modeling of interactions between turbines, turbulence, and wakes indicates potential for lower wind plant costs and improved efficiency.
Design, manufacturing, and transportation option assessments show how “supersized” blades could increase energy, affordability, and site viability.
Small, light, wide-range tags more effectively track behavior and flight patterns, safeguarding bats from potential encounters with wind turbines.
Wake steering field trials reveal potential for wind-plant-level control to increase annual energy production 1%–2% and profits by $1 million.
The subsequent contract will support emerging technologies that detect and deter bird and bat encounters with wind energy facilities.
SETO extends its appreciation to all of its awardees for their performance and continuing dedication to advancing solar energy technologies.
The Consortium's RFP is related to offshore wind plant technology advancement, which includes optimizing the performance of wind plants.
WETO has issued a $28-million multitopic FOA aimed at enabling wind energy nationwide across all sectors: land-based, offshore, and distributed.