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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

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation—Inaugural Members Meeting
News Article, October 16, 2015 • Sandia Wind Department technical staff members Josh Paquette and Brian Naughton attended the inaugural members meeting for the newly formed Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) in Knoxville, Tennessee. A few hundred attendees from the composites industry, academic institutions, and government agencies gathered to learn about opportunities to participate in...

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 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...

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...