NWTC UCB Unmanned Aerial System Meteorological Instrument Validation Project; NEPA Tracking No. 17-009 Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308 CX(s) Applied: B3.2, B5.15 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Date: 04/13/17 Location(s): CO Office...
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NWTC UCB Unmanned Aerial System Meteorological Instrument Validation Project; NEPA Tracking No. 17-009
Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308
CX(s) Applied: B3.2, B5.15
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Date: 04/13/2017
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB), is proposing a project that would validate on-board meteorological instrumentation technologies utilizing an unmanned aerial system (UAS; i.e., drone) at NREL’s National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), located southeast of the intersection of Colorado Highway (CO) 93 and CO-128 in Jefferson County, Colorado. The NWTC is a federally-owned facility that consists of 305 acres and is primarily utilized for wind energy research, development, and testing.
NREL staff would host UCB staff while visiting the site and throughout the operation of the UAS. Flight operations would also be supervised by the UCB’s Director of Flight Operations (DO), who has over 37 years’ experience with unmanned aircrafts.