Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $13.8 million in stimulus awards to 28 new wind energy projects on July 16.
“Wind energy will be a critical factor in achieving the President’s goals for clean energy, while supporting news jobs,” Chu said.“While the United States leads the world in wind energy capacity, we have to continue to support research and development as we expand renewable energy deployment.”
In addition to the awards, Chu also announced the release of DOE’s 2008 Wind Technologies Market Report, detailing $16 billion in investment in wind projects made in the U.S. in 2008 – making the U.S. the leader in annual wind energy capacity growth, as well as cumulative wind energy capacity.
The 28 new wind energy projects winning federal money are:
Supporting Wind Turbine Research and Testing
Alpha Star Corporation – Advanced Composite Wind Turbine Blade Design Based on Durability & Damage Tolerance(Long Beach, CA) - $200,383
Analatom, Inc. - Remote Structural Health Monitoring and Advanced Prognostics of Wind Turbines(Sunnyvale, CA) - $200,000
Bayer Material Science, LLC - Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polyurethane Composites for Wind Turbine Blades (Pittsburgh, PA) - $750,000
Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln - Online Nonintrusive Condition Monitoring and Fault Detection for Wind Turbines (Lincoln, NE)- $380,398
DNV Global Energy Concepts, Inc. - Supporting Wind Turbine Research and Testing - Gearbox Durability Study(Seattle, WA) - $399,616
Dow Corning Corporation - Lifetime Lubricating Fluid for Gearboxes to Increase Efficiency and Durability of Wind Turbine Drive Trains(Midland, MI) -$745,189
General Electric - Wind Turbine Manufacturing Process Monitoring(Niskayuna, NY) -$697,769
Honeywell International, Inc. - Condition Based Monitoring for Wind Farms(Golden Valley, MN) - $626,086
Michigan Aerospace Corporation - Turbine Reliability and Operability Optimization Through the Use of Direct Detection LIDAR(Ann Arbor, MI) - $748,002
Native American Technologies Company - Automated Welding, Forming, Coating for On-Site Fabricated, Self-Erecting Utility Scale Wind Towers(Lakewood, CO) - $749,739
Northern Power Systems, Inc. - Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain Automation (Barre, VT) - $683,388
QM Power, Inc. - Advanced High Power Density Permanent Magnet Wind Generators (Greenwood, MO) - $398,005
University of Massachusetts Lowell - Effect of Manufacturing-Induced Defects on Reliability of Composite Wind Turbine Blades(Lowell, MA) - $499,886
Transmission Analysis, Planning and Assessments
Areva Federal Services - Best Practices and Advances in Strategies and Decision Support Systems for Integrating Wind Energy for Reliable Grid Operations (Bethesda, MD) - $275,610
Western Electricity Coordinating Council - Balancing Authority Cooperation Concepts to Reduce Variable Generation Integration Costs in the Western Interconnection (Salt Lake City, UT) - $319,200*
Electric Power Research Institute - Integrating Midwest Wind Energy into Southeast Electricity Markets(Knoxville, TN) - $399,135
EnerNex Corporation - Documentation, User Support, and Verification of Wind Turbine and Plant Models(Knoxville, TN) - $749,868
Hawaiian Electric Company - Hawaii Utility Integration Initiatives (H.U.I.) to Enable Wind(Honolulu, HI) - $750,000
Illinois Institute of Technology - WINS: Market Simulation Tool for Facilitating Wind Energy Integration(Chicago, IL) - $749,877
Regents of New Mexico State University - Investigating Short Circuit Models for Wind Turbine Generators(Las Cruces, NM) - $272,816
Regents of the University of Michigan - Techniques for Voltage Control and Transient Stability Assessment(Ann Arbor, MI) - $413,534
Tennessee Technological University - Multi-Level Energy Storage and Controls for Large-Scale Wind Energy Integration(Cookeville, TN) - $265,677
The Regents of the University of Colorado - Upstream Measurements of Wind Profiles with Doppler Lidar for Improved Wind Energy Integration (Boulder, CO) - $233,082
University of Texas at Austin - Techno-Economic Modeling of the Integration of 20% Wind and Large-scale energy storage in ERCOT by 2030(Austin, TX) - $510,688*
University of WI-Milwaukee - Lithium-Ion Ultracapacitors integrated with Wind Turbines Power Conversion Systems to Extend Operating Life and Improve Output Power Quality(Milwaukee, WI) - $422,266
V&R Energy Systems Research, Inc. - Improving Reliability of Transmission Grid to Facilitate Integration of Wind Energy in Tri-State G&T and AECI(Los Angeles, CA) - $195,002*
WINData, Inc. - Use of Real-Time Off-Site Observations as a Methodology for Increasing Forecast Skill in Prediction of Large Wind Power Ramps One or More Hours Ahead of Their Impact on a Wind Plant(Great Falls, MT) - $398,966
*Three awards are being made by DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Reliability using annual appropriated funds rather than ARRA funds.
Three new demonstration projects caught our attention - a smart grid effort in Albuquerque's business district, a rapid recovery transformer study in Texas and a trial involving low voltage current sensor technologies in the UK. They also got us to thinking: At this stage in the smart grid build out, if you could design a demonstration project, what would it entail? That's our latest Tuesday Topic; click for the details.
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