Sandia, through its Blade Reliability Collaborative, partnered with a wind turbine operator and associated wind turbine manufacturer to study the effects of blade erosion on wind turbine power performance.
Texas university generates 60 kW from 3 VAWTs
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi President Flavius Killebrew officially “flipped the switch” recently to turn on three 20-kW vertical axis wind turbines, which make up the largest vertical-axis wind turbine installation of its kind in the United States. The site at the main campus also includes a small 4-kW campus wind turbine, which can be lowered…