Texas Tech's National Wind Institute earns fed grant to study wind farm wakes
Texas Tech's National Wind Institute earns fed grant to study wind farm wakes For A-J Media A group of researchers from Texas Tech's National Wind Institute (NWI) received a 4.5-year, $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory to work on the American Wake Experiment (AWAKEN) project. “The research project is looking at wind turbine wakes and how one turbine can impact the inflow into another,” said John Schroeder, senior director of the NWI, a professor of atmospheric science in the College of Arts & Sciences and ...