Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308
CX(s) Applied: B3.6
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Verdant Power (as a subcontractor) and in support of NREL’s Thermoplastic-Composite Blade Research Measurement Campaign, is proposing to manufacture, test and validate a thermoplastic-fiberglass composite blade for use on a tidal energy turbine. The objective of the project is to demonstrate the structural properties of thermoplastic-fiberglass composite blades compared to epoxy blades in seawater environments on an operational turbine at a tidal energy site.