Sep 05
New post on: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is no stranger to the spotlight when it comes to the discussion of renewable energy solutions for the country. But now alumni from the NREL Executive Energy Leadership program (Energy Execs) are also finding themselves in the national spotlight for their energy saving ways.
Energy Execs is a six-month leadership program that gives executives an in-depth look at solar and wind power, biofuels and transportation, and energy efficient building technologies. Participants get first hand briefings by NREL technology experts, visit research laboratories as well as visit working applications of renewable energy technologies in the field. At the end of the program, participants demonstrate what they’ve learned by presenting a viable project on renewable energy or energy efficiency.
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Aug 28
New post on: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The clean wind energy industry must expand significantly in the next two decades to fulfill a strategy of generating 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. To provide the technological foundation for that dramatic growth, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is embarking on significant improvements at its National Wind Technology Center.
Engineers are installing the two largest turbines ever tested at the laboratory — a 1.5 MW turbine manufactured by General Electric and a 2.3 MW turbine from Siemens Power Generation.
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Aug 21
New post on: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) began the installation of the two largest wind turbines ever erected at the laboratory — a 1.5 MW Department of Energy (DOE) turbine manufactured by General Electric and a 2.3 MW turbine from Siemens Power Generation.
On Friday, turbine nacelle and the rotor and blades are expected to be lifted onto the DOE turbine at NREL’s National Wind Technology Center (NWTC). Construction of both turbines is expected to be finished in September. The installation of these two turbines will greatly enhance the research capabilities of the NWTC by allowing the researchers to examine some of industry’s largest machines and address challenges to rapidly expanding wind energy.
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