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2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, March 1, 2024 • The 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop will be held Sept. 16-20, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers. Speakers and attendees will address the major topics for wind turbine blades, network with colleagues, and...

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

DOE’s WETO commissions the National Rotor Testbed
News Article, October 29, 2021 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office is in the process of officially commissioning the National Rotor Testbed, an open-source wind turbine for wake control research designed by Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Wind Energy program. The NRT was 95% commissioned in 2021, and work is expected to be...
Wind Turbine at Sandia SWiFT facility at sunset

Navy/Marine Engineering Command Visits Sandia
News Article, July 15, 2015 • Our nation relies upon a network of radars across the country to support the missions of homeland defense/ security, flight safety, and weather forecasting. The air-surveillance environment contains within it clutter, both stationary and moving. Wind turbines present a unique problem in that they can be both stationary and moving...

Offshore wind roadmap addresses operations and maintenance challenges and opportunities
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Offshore Wind Research program recently completed a first-of-its-kind report, “An Operations and Maintenance Roadmap for U.S. Offshore Wind.”  Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the roadmap assesses current operation and...
Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea

Registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, July 1, 2024 • We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop.   To register, please visit the Eventbrite webpage, and keep in mind that your registration is not complete until also paying the registration fee on Sandia Pay. The registration fee is waived for invited speakers and...

Sandia conducts cybersecurity research to reduce threats to nation’s wind fleet
News Article, February 17, 2023 • Wind energy-specific cybersecurity research and development is critical to the defensive protection of wind assets from cyber threats. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) recognizes the need to assess risks and consequences associated with malicious activities—whether physical or cyber—and has prioritized the strengthening of the...

Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy Technology and Microgrid Testing Webinar
News Article, March 13, 2024 • Join experts from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department as they host, “Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy Technology and Microgrid Testing,” on April 2, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. MT.   The Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) project, long known for its research into advanced rotor...
three wind turbines outlined by a luminous sunset at the Sandia Wind Farm Testing Facility

Sandia Pilot Program to Assist Small Clean-Energy Companies
News Article, July 23, 2015 • The National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia could be used for collaborative research through the Small Business Voucher Pilot. (Photo by Randy Montoya) The DOE chose Sandia as one of five leads in a pilot that will give small, clean-energy companies access to national laboratory expertise and resources. Sandia...

Sandia researcher contributes to Wind report published by National Academy of Sciences
News Article, March 18, 2022 • The National Academy of Sciences recently published the new report, “Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar,” co-written by Sandia wind energy researcher Ben Karlson. While wind energy development is expected to grow along the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf and expand into the Gulf of Mexico and the...

Sandia to host Deployable Wind Power for Defense and Disaster Response Workshop on June 17th
News Article, June 13, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and the University of Dayton Research Institute will present the Deployable Wind Power for Defense and Disaster Response Workshop on June 17, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Stakeholders from the defense and disaster response communities are invited to attend to...

Sandia Wind Energy Technologies Program takes lead for six incubator awards
News Article, November 8, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories received the lead on six new incubator awards announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office on October 20. WETO provided the wind-specific seed funding for a new program to create novel pathways to innovation while allowing the national labs a higher degree of risk...

Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY21 Accomplishments Report
News Article, April 8, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Program has released its Wind Energy Program FY21 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of funding provided by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and the Sandia Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)...

Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY22 Accomplishments Report 
News Article, April 5, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Program has released its Wind Energy Program FY22 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of projects funded by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), DOE Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, and the Sandia Laboratory Directed Research and Development...

Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY23 Accomplishments Report
News Article, April 3, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy program has released its Sandia Wind Energy Program FY23 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of projects funded by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office, DOE Technology Commercialization Fund, Sandia Strategic Partnerships Projects, and the Sandia Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.     The Wind Energy...

Save the Date — 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop: Oct. 17-20, Albuquerque, NM
News Article, March 1, 2022 • Save the Date! When: October 17—20, 2022 Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Please mark your calendars for the return of the Sandia Blade Workshop, in-person and in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 17-20, 2022. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers to address...