Wind

Argonne’s Wind Power Technology and Analysis Program supports the Department of Energy’s Wind and Water Power Program in its mission to enable rapid expansion of clean, affordable, reliable, and domestic wind power to promote national security, economic vitality, and environmental quality.  Argonne’s wind power research focuses on the following activities:

• Addressing wind turbine drivetrain reliability issues
• Developing advanced superconducting drivetrain designs
• Improving statistical wind power forecasting methods
• Grid systems operations with large penetrations of variable resources
• Wind energy development in critical wildlife habitats
• GIS-based visual impact risk analysis and mitigation identification system
• Workforce development

Research

	Addressing wind turbine drivetrain reliability issues
	Improving statistical wind power forecasting methods
	Grid systems operations for wind
	Wind energy development in critical wildlife habitats
	GIS-based visual impact risk analysis and mitigation identification system
	Workforce development

More

• ARGUS-PRIMA for improved wind power forecasting
• Study shows that wind power decreases polluting emissions

May 2012