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Recently installed spinner lidar to improve accuracy, prediction of Sandia and wind industry simulation tools

News Article, July 10, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies researchers successfully installed and deployed the spinner lidar on the hub of a General Electric wind turbine in Lubbock, Texas. The instrument was deployed as part of a cooperative research agreement between Sandia, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and GE for the Rotor Aerodynamics,...

Sandia researchers update Numerical Manufacturing and Design software tool, foster new GitHub community

News Article, February 18, 2022 • Researchers from Sandia’s wind energy program have released a new version of the software tool Numerical Manufacturing and Design, or NuMAD, for the structural design and modeling of wind turbine blades. NuMAD version 3.0, which was funded by DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, is an object-oriented, open-source software program written...

Sandia researchers wrap up Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine (D3T) project, develop guidelines

News Article, April 15, 2022 • Sandia researchers have devised a new set of design guidelines and procurement specifications that help the wind energy industry and the U.S. military develop and evaluate rapidly deployable wind energy systems for use in defense and disaster-response applications. The Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine, or D3T, project was funded by...

WETO supports reclamation of retired wind blade turbines

News Article, June 17, 2021 • The Wind Energy Technologies Office is supporting an effort by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers and partners at Carbon Rivers to develop a novel method of reclaiming fiberglass from retired wind turbine blades. To learn more about how this effort, and how work through Sandia National Laboratories’ Blade Reliability...