While one might be tempted by headlines to assume that wind-energy-related activity in the U.S. will come to a screeching halt at the end of the year, with the seemingly almost certain expiration of the federal production tax credit, that temptation would lead you astray. At least, that was the suggestion that grew out of [...]
A New Facility for Rapid Testing and Development By the end of FY12, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) will have completed the development of the Scaled WInd Farm Technology (SWIFT) Facility, hosted at Texas Tech University, to enable rapid, cost-efficient testing and development of transformative wind energy technology. SWIFT’s [...]
Researchers at the Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory—a joint effort of researchers from TPI Composites, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company that operates a turbine blade factory in Newton, and Sandia National Laboratories, and located at Iowa State University—used laser readings to calculate how dozens of the layers would fit and flow over the curves of a mold [...]
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