Texas Tech University System and Group NIRE welcome Gamesa Technology Corp. to its research facilities in Lubbock, Texas at the Reese Technology Center. Group NIRE and Gamesa Technology have completed the installation and commissioning of the first 60Hz G114-2.0 MW wind turbine at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, TX. Erection and commissioning of the…
U.S. energy project to give National Wind Institute access to research data
Texas Tech University is receiving a boost to its existing research partnership with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Production Office (NPO) on the Pantex Renewable Energy Project at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. “This agreement will give us full access to information from an industrial facility directly using utility scale wind energy in…
Complex wind flows finally giving up their secrets
Steering turbine wakes by controlling yaw and seeing real-time measurements of wind flow through a wind farm are just two ideas and developments from Sandia’s recent reliability workshop. The complex interactions of wind with many turbines across a large wind farm are not difficult to imagine but a dickens to confirm. During one session at…