Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility


The Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility is a collaborative research facility, located at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas, in the United States. It is the first public facility to use multiple wind turbines to measure turbine performance in a wind farm environment as a user facility for the Wind Energy Technologies Office of the United States Department of Energy. The project was formally commissioned in the summer of 2013.

Partners

Some of the present research collaboration involves the following research partners:

Facilities

The SWiFT facilities consist of:SWiFT Wind Turbines: Three research-scale wind turbines, two deployed by Sandia and the third one by VestaMeteorological Towers: Two 60-meter-tall anemometer towers for measuring wind speedControl Building: Housing 640 square feet of computing space for wind-turbine controlAssembly Building: A 5,500 square foot, environmentally controlled high-bay assembly area with machining capabilities