Engineering innovation to reduce wind power COE

Journal Article · Mon Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1046025

Ammerman, Curtt Nelson ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

There are enough wind resources in the US to provide 10 times the electric power we currently use, however wind power only accounts for 2% of our total electricity production. One of the main limitations to wind use is cost. Wind power currently costs 5-to-8 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is more than twice the cost of electricity generated by burning coal. Our Intelligent Wind Turbine LDRD Project is applying LANL's leading-edge engineering expertise in modeling and simulation, experimental validation, and advanced sensing technologies to challenges faced in the design and operation of modern wind turbines.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1046025
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-11-00179; LA-UR-11-179; TRN: US201216%%57
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
42 ENGINEERING
COST
DESIGN
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
OPERATION
PRODUCTION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SIMULATION
VALIDATION
WIND
WIND POWER
WIND TURBINES