National Wind Technology Center

Research output

Research Output per Year 1977 2004 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 1319 Paper
• 1072 Article
• 661 Technical Report
• 456 Presentation
• 772 More
  • 230 Fact Sheet
  • 141 Poster
  • 133 Brochure
  • 133 Subcontract Report
  • 45 Chapter
  • 28 Book
  • 25 Marketing
  • 22 Patent
  • 8 Newsletter
  • 6 Management
  • 1 Other contribution

Research Output per Year

Research Output per Year

Search results

• 2024

  2022 Component Innovation Awardee: Pecos Wind Power

  NREL, 2024, 2 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Wind Velocity 100%
  • Horizontal Axis 100%
  • Windpower Utilization 66%
  • Compressed Air Motors 66%

• 2022 Component Innovation Awardee: Windurance

  NREL, 2024, 2 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Energy Systems 100%
  • Battery Energy Storage 100%
  • Wind Power 100%
  • Energy Storage 100%
  • Power Control 50%

• 2022 Small Turbine Certification Awardee: Eocycle America Corporation

  NREL, 2024, 2 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Turbine 100%
  • Maintenance Requirement 50%
  • Electrical Safety 50%
  • Turbine Reliability 50%
  • Safety Standard 50%

• 2022 System Optimization Awardee: XFlow Energy Company

  NREL, 2024, 2 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Power Production 100%
  • Vertical Axis Wind Turbine 100%
  • Turbine 100%
  • Generated Electricity 50%
  • Levelized Cost of Energy 50%

• Distributed Wind Energy Resource Hub

  Baranowski, R., MacDonald, S. & Preziuso, D., 2024, 18 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Distribution Network 100%
  • Small Business 100%
  • Department of Energy 100%
  • Funding Opportunity 100%
  • Information Project 100%

• Raptor Monitoring and Minimization Technologies

  Dempsey, L. & Hein, C., 2024, 4 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Specific Industry 100%
  • International Energy Agency 100%
  • Government Agency 100%
  • Nonprofit Organization 100%
  • Financial Institution 100%

• Raptors and Land-Based Wind Energy in the United States

  Dempsey, L., Watson, K. & Hein, C., 2024, 7 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 66%
  • Flight 66%
  • Land Use Change 33%
  • Avian Species 33%

• Ultrasonic Deterrents To Reduce Bat Mortality at Wind Turbines - Short Science Summary

  NREL, 2024, 3 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Ultrasonics 100%
  • Turbine 100%
  • Mortality Rate 100%
  • Farm Operators 50%

• Using Ultraviolet Light to Deter Bats from Wind Turbines - Short Science Summary

  NREL, 2024, 4 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Ultraviolet Light 100%
  • Anticipation 100%
  • Study Design 100%
  • Flight 20%
• 2023

  2022 Component Innovation Awardee: Carter Wind Turbines

  NREL, 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Turbine 100%
  • Energy Systems 33%
  • Wind Power 33%
  • Site Condition 33%

• 2022 Product Commercialization and Market Development Awardee: Bergey Windpower

  NREL, 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions 100%
  • Finance 100%
  • Market Share 100%
  • Consumer Credit 100%

• 2022 Project Commercialization and Market Development Awardee: Eocycle America Corporation

  NREL, 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Commercialization 100%
  • Americas 100%
  • Wind Power 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions 100%
  • Specific Industry 100%

• 2022 Prototype Design Development Awardee: RRD Engineering

  NREL, 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Engineering 100%
  • Design Development 100%
  • Turbine 100%
  • Maintenance Requirement 50%
  • Compressed Air Motors 50%

• 2022 Prototype Installation and Testing Awardee: Windward Engineering

  NREL, 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Engineering 100%
  • Rotors 50%
  • Levelized Cost of Energy 50%
  • Compressed Air Motors 50%
  • Turbine 50%

• 2022 Prototype Manufacture and Installation Awardee: Sonsight Wind

  NREL, 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Turbine 100%
  • Solar Energy 25%
  • Levelized Cost of Energy 25%
  • Thrust Force 25%
  • Remote Area 25%

• Collision Risk Modeling - A Tool for Assessing Risks to Raptors at Wind Energy Facilities

  Dempsey, L. & Hein, C., 2023, 4 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Assessing Risk 100%
  • Stakeholder Group 100%
  • Impact Assessment 100%
  • Population Level 100%
  • Wind Power 100%

• Distributed Wind Aeroelastic Modeling (dWAM)

  NREL, 2023

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Turbine 100%
  • Wind Power 50%
  • Design Parameter 50%

• Grouse and Land-Based Wind Energy Development in the United States

  NREL, 2023, 8 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Grouse 100%
  • Wind Power 100%
  • Greater Sage-Grouse 75%
  • Grassland 25%
  • Tympanuchus 25%

• La Jerarquia de Mitigacion (Spanish)

  Dempsey, L., Hein, C. & Munter, L., 2023, 4 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

• Modelos de riesgo de colision: una herramienta para evaluar los riesgos para las aves rapaces en instalaciones de energia eolica (Spanish)

  Dempsey, L. & Hein, C., 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

• Offshore Wind Workforce Safety Standards and Training Resource

  Clark, C., McDowell, B. & Stefek, J., 2023, 19 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Offshore Wind Energy 100%
  • Energy Project 100%
  • Safety Standard 100%
  • Offshore Safety 50%

• Probabilidad de que los murcielagos sufran barotraumatismo cerca de palas de aerogeneradores en movimiento (Spanish)

  Guest, E. & Hein, C., 2023, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

• Summary of Bats and Land-Based Wind Energy Development in the United States and Canada

  Guest, E. & Hein, C., 2023, 4 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • United States 100%
  • Canada 100%
  • Wind Power 100%
  • Windpower Utilization 100%
  • Renewable Energy 25%

• The Likelihood of Bats Experiencing Barotrauma Near Moving Wind Turbine Blades

  Guest, E. & Hein, C., 2023, 2 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Hypobarism 100%
  • Inner Ear 100%
  • Wind Power 100%
  • Barotrauma 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%

• The Mitigation Hierarchy

  Dempsey, L., Hein, C. & Munter, L., 2023, 4 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Biodiversity 100%

• Wind as a Distributed Energy Resource

  NREL, 2023, 4 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Distributed Energy Resource 100%
  • Distributed Power Generation 100%
  • Power Production 100%
  • Future Energy 100%
  • Educational Resource 100%
• 2022

  2020 Awardee of Two Small Wind Turbine Certification and Listing Awards: QED

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Renewable Energy 25%

• 2020 Component Innovation Awardee: Windurance LLC

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Power Conversion 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Applicable Standard 100%
  • Specific Power 50%
  • Wind Power 50%

• 2021 Component Innovation Awardee: Siva Powers America

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Energy Production 100%
  • Rotor Diameter 100%
  • Redesign 100%
  • Wind Resource 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%

• 2021 Component Innovation Awardee: Windurance, LLC

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Market Penetration 100%
  • time-delay 100%
  • Software Frameworks 100%
  • Energy Industry 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%

• 2021 Component Innovation Project Awardee: Bergey Windpower

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Health Care Cost 100%
  • Drive 33%

• 2021 Prototype Design Development Awardee: Accelerate Wind, Inc.

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Design Development 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Photovoltaics 100%
  • Power Generation 50%
  • Solar Energy 50%

• 2021 Prototype Installation and Testing Awardee: XFlow Energy Company

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Vertical Axis Wind Turbine 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Capital Cost 33%
  • Wind Power 33%
  • Simulation Tool 33%

• 2021 Prototype Manufacture and Installation Awardee: Pecos Wind Power, Inc.

  NREL, 2022, 2 p. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Distributed Energy Resource 16%
  • Solar Energy 16%
  • Kilowatt Hour 16%

• 2021 Prototype Testing Awardee: Sonsight Wind

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Levelized Cost of Energy 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Turbine 100%
  • Power Electronics 50%
  • Solar Energy 50%

• 2021 Small Turbine Certification Awardee: Intergrid LLC

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Small Business 100%
  • Research Conduct 100%
  • Software Verification 100%
  • Business Innovation 100%
  • Energy Industry 100%

• Bat and Bird Interactions with Offshore Wind Farms

  NREL, 2022, 14 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Bat 100%
  • Bird 100%
  • Investigation 33%
  • Species 33%
  • Attraction 33%

• Benthic Disturbance from Offshore Wind Foundations, Anchors, and Cables

  NREL, 2022, 15 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Offshore Wind Farms 100%
  • Operation Period 100%
  • Construction Period 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Pile Driving 100%

• Electromagnetic Field Effects on Marine Life

  NREL, 2022, 13 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Offshore Wind Farms 100%

• Enabling Innovation in Wind Turbine Design Using Artificial Intelligence

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Turbines Design 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Rotors 50%
  • Aerodynamic Effect 50%

• Introduction of New Offshore Wind Farm Structures: Effects on Fish Ecology

  NREL, 2022, 10 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Offshore Wind 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Educational Research 50%
  • United States of America 33%
  • Marine Environment 33%

• Presence of Vessels: Effects of Vessel Collision on Marine Life

  NREL, 2022, 9 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Collision Risk 100%
  • Lifecycle 50%
  • Compressed Air Motors 50%

• Risk to Marine Life from Marine Debris & Floating Offshore Wind Cable Systems

  NREL, 2022, 7 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Mooring System 100%
  • Fishing Gear 100%
  • Offshore Wind 100%
  • Cable System 100%
  • Entanglement 66%

• Underwater Noise Effects on Marine Life Associated with Offshore Wind Farms

  NREL, 2022, 10 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Offshore Wind Farms 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Lifecycle 50%
  • Special Attention 50%
  • Impact Sound 50%

• Wind Beneath Your Wings

  NREL, 2022, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Hydroelectric Energy 33%
  • Power Output 33%
  • Renewable Conversion 33%
  • Compressed Air Motors 33%
• 2021

  2020 Component Innovation Awardee: Carter Wind Turbines

  NREL, 2021, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Compressed Air Motors 100%
  • Energy Generation 100%
  • Power Generation 33%
  • Energy Project 33%

• 2020 Small Wind Turbine Certification Awardee: Star Wind Turbines

  NREL, 2021, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Compressed Air Motors 100%

• 2020 System Optimization Awardee: Carter Wind Turbines

  NREL, 2021, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Optimization 100%
  • Windpower Utilization 100%
  • Utilization 33%
  • Technology 33%
  • Reliability 33%

• 2020 System Optimization Awardee: Pecos Wind Power

  NREL, 2021, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Wind Power 100%
  • Kilowatt Hour 50%
  • Levelized Cost of Energy 25%
  • Compressed Air Motors 25%
  • Wind Power Project 25%

• Microgrids, Infrastructure Resilience, and Advanced Controls Launchpad (MIRACL) Research: Controls

  NREL, 2021, 2 p.

  Research output: NREL › Fact Sheet

  • Microgrid 100%
  • Control Research 100%
  • Grid System 50%
  • Wind Power 50%
  • Distributed Power Generation 50%