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Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
News Article, August 16, 2022 • New Sandia software allows for design of innovative floating turbines Brandon Ennis, Sandia National Laboratories’ offshore wind technical lead, had a radically new idea for offshore wind turbines: instead of a tall, unwieldy tower with blades at the top, he imagined a towerless turbine with blades pulled taut like a...
An illustration of a vertical axis wind turbine

DOE, Sandia, and NREL to create industry-informed roadmap for offshore wind operations and maintenance technologies
News Article, February 27, 2023 • New tool will encourage offshore wind energy development and boost industry confidence The U.S. Department of Energy has announced Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are working to produce an industry-informed roadmap for the development of new operations and maintenance technologies and processes to enhance the cost-effectiveness,...
Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea

Structural Health Monitoring and Prognostics Management for Offshore Wind Plants
News Article, August 5, 2015 • Offshore wind energy could potentially play a significant role in helping the nation establish a diversified energy-generation portfolio composed of clean, renewable resources. A current obstacle to offshore wind energy is that most projections put offshore wind farm operations and maintenance (O&M) costs between 2 to 5 times the current...