New tool at Sandia brings some West Texas wind to the Duke City â virtually
Photo by Bret Latter, Sandia National Laboratories
Rachid Darbali-Zamora examines Sandia National Laboratoriesâ new wind turbine motor, which will allow the distributed energy team to study how wind farms will behave under a variety of conditions and in different locations.
Photo by Bret Latter, Sandia National Laboratories
The scaled down turbine motor is connected to software that will allow the Sandia National Laboratories team to emulate a variety of conditions and tackle the challenges of using wind power as part of a microgrid for remote communities.
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IMAGE: Rachid Darbali-Zamora examines Sandia National Laboratories new wind turbine motor, which will allow the distributed energy team to study how wind farms will behave under a variety of conditions and. view more
Credit: Photo by Bret Latter, courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have a new tool that allows them to study wind power and see whether it can be efficiently used to provide power to people living in remote and rural places or even off the grid, through distributed energy.
A new, custom-built wind turbine emulator has been installed at Sandia s Distributed Energy Technologies Laboratory. The emulator, which mimics actual wind turbines at Sandia s Scaled Wind Farm Technology Site near Lubbock Texas, will be used to study how wind farms behave under multiple weather conditions and load demands, and if they can be efficiently used as a source of distributed energy for consumers who