The SWiFT Facility passed a critical milestone towards a complete restart of operations with the approval to re-mount rotors and complete the commissioning.

This article comes from Sandia National Lab’s Wind & Water Power news and is reposted with permission. The total energy produced by a wind farm depends on the complex interaction of many wind turbines operating in proximity with the turbulent atmosphere. Sometimes the unsteady forces associated with wind negatively influence power production, causing damage, and…

This article was extracted from the August issue of the Sandia Wind Research Newsletter and published with permission. The Sandia Wake Imaging System (SWIS) was deployed for a full-scale field demonstration at the Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility in Lubbock, Texas over the first three weeks of July 2015. The successful field-demonstration was…

This article was excerpted from Sandia’s Wind and Water Power Technologies Program Newsletter and republished with permission. The National Rotor Testbed team has been looking into the effect of airfoil choice on the final design of the new rotor for SWiFT, Sandia National Labs Scaled Wind Farm Technology. The airfoil family would ideally be designed to…

The Department of Energy (DOE), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), National Wind Institute of Texas Tech University (NWI/TTU), and Group NIRE (NIRE) recently commissioned the SWiFT (Scaled Wind Farm Technology) test facility in Lubbock, Texas. ABB was invited to attend the special event, and was recognized as among the companies that provided key equipment to the facility.…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University recently commissioned the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The SWiFT is the first public facility of its kind to use multiple wind turbines to measure how wind turbines interact with one another…