In February 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office held its Peer Review Meeting in Arlington, Virginia.
Wind Energy Technologies Office
March 22, 2017
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In February 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office held its Peer Review Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. The purpose of the meetings was to evaluate DOE-funded wind energy research and development projects for contributions to DOE’s mission and goals, and to assess progress made against stated objectives.
This PDF includes the following presentations:
Wind Research and Development Track Overview
Mike Derby, Wind Technology Program Manager
Technology Innovation Overview
Megan McCluer, Senior Advisor, Manufacturing, Reliability, and Testing
- Additive Manufacturing in Wind Turbine Components and Tooling
Brian K. Post, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Development of On-Site Tapered Spiral Welding for Large Turbine Towers
- Eric Smith, Keystone Tower Systems
- Hexcrete Tower for Harvesting Wind Energy at Taller Hub Heights
Sri Sritharan, Iowa State University - Testing Facilities and Capabilities at SNL
Jon White, Sandia National Laboratories - Testing Facilities and Capabilities at National Wind Technology Center
Dave Simms, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Innovative Blade Test Methods
Scott Hughes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Rotor Reliability (Collaboratives, Monitoring, and O&M)
Josh Paquette, Sandia National Laboratories - Drivetrain Reliability (Collaboratives, Monitoring, and O&M)
Jonathan Keller, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Innovative Drivetrain Concepts (FOA): Next Generation Drivetrain
Jonathan Keller, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - An Online Intelligent Prognostic Health Monitoring System for Wind Turbines
Wei Qiao, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Wind Standards Development
Jeroen van Dam, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Advanced High Torque Density Magnetically Geared Generator
Jonathan Bird, University of North Carolina at Charlotte - The Incubation of Next-Generation Radar Technologies to Lower the Cost of Wind Energy
John Schroeder, Texas Tech University
Wind Plant Optimization Overview
Joel Cline, Resource Characterization Team Lead
- Performance Risk, Uncertainty & Finance (PRUF): Wind Plant Benchmarking
Jason Fields, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - High-Fidelity Modeling
Michael A. Sprague, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Wake Dynamics Measurement, Testing, and Validation
Brian Naughton, Sandia National Laboratories - Wind Plant Flow Control
Alan Wright, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Integrated System Design and Analysis (ISDA)
Katherine Dykes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - The DOE A2e Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling Project
Sue Ellen Haupt, Joel Cline, Will Shaw, Larry Berg, Matt Churchfield, Jeff Mirocha, Branko Kosovic, Caroline Draxl, Raj Rai, Rao Kotamarthi, et. al. - Wind Forecast Improvement Project in Complex Terrain (WFIP 2)
Will Shaw, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; JM Wilczak, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; J McCaa, Vaisala - Data Archive and Portal
Chitra Sivaraman
Distributed Wind Research, Development, and Testing
Patrick Gilman, Distributed Wind Team Lead
- Distributed Wind Research Development and Testing
Ian Baring-Gould, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Competitiveness Improvement Project
Ian Baring-Gould, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Offshore Wind Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment; Technology; and Resource Characterization
Alana Duerr, Offshore Wind Team Lead
- Modeling and Validation for Offshore Wind
Amy Robertson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Wave Impacts on Fixed Offshore Wind Foundations
Ralph L. Nichols, Savannah River National Laboratory - Sediment Transport Impacts on Offshore Wind Projects
Jesse Roberts, Sandia National Laboratories; Craig Jones, Integral Consulting - Instrumentation Planning for the Offshore Wind Advanced Technology Demonstration Projects
Walter Musial, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Structural Health and Prognostics Management for Offshore Wind Projects
D. Todd Griffith, Sandia National Laboratories - Demo Project Buoy Deployment
WJ Shaw, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - National Offshore Wind Strategy Supporting Analysis
Walter Musial, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Turbine Advanced Controls for Offshore Wind Floating Applications
Dhiraj Arora, GE Renewable Energy - New England Aqua Ventus I
Habib Dagher, University of Maine - Hywind Maine
Andrea Eugster, Statoil ASA - WindFloat Pacific: Floating Offshore Wind Demonstration Project
Kevin Banister, Principle Power, Inc. - Fishermen’s Energy Atlantic City Wind Farm
Chris Wisseman, Fisherman’s Energy - Project Icebreaker
David P. Karpinski, LEEDCo