Manufacturing costs and logistics are two challenges to rapidly integrating more renewable energy into the U.S. power system. This is especially true for tall land-based wind turbines, but Colorado-based Keystone Tower Systems is changing how wind turbines can be manufactured, transported, and installed. Taller land-based wind turbines harness and generate … [continued]
Height is might when it comes to wind turbine towers. The taller they are, the more energy they can harness. Transporting massive tower components to their installation sites is logistically challenging and costly, but GE Renewable Energy has a solution: 3-D printing the base of the concrete tower on site, … [continued]
GE is ready to rock the world of onshore wind turbines with 3D printing for a new concrete base.
First-ever demonstration shows wind can fulfill a wider role in future power systems: The Electric Grid In a milestone for renewable energy integration, General Electric (GE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) operated a common class of wind turbines in grid-forming mode, which is when the generator can set … [continued]
Green hydrogen projects are stepping up in scale, as demonstrated by 3 projects impacting ground transportation, power generation, shipping, and aircraft.
Sinopec has laid plans to build the largest green hydrogen production facility in the world, but interest in fossil-sourced hydrogen continues apace.
NREL Uses Advanced Grid Research Environment for First-Ever Example ofType-3 Turbines Using Grid-Forming Controls
Three-Dimensional Printing of Thermoplastic Blades Enables Thermal Welding, Improves Recyclability
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) provides global leadership in fundamental wind energy science research, development, and validation activities that enable low-cost wind energy. The Office pursues opportunities across all U.S. wind sectors — land-based utility-scale wind, offshore wind, distributed wind — as well as … [continued]
Offshore wind holds great promise as a source of clean, domestic, renewable energy that can meet the needs of communities along the nation’s coastlines. And — according to the Offshore Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition, written by a team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its … [continued]
