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.