Sandia Study Provides Insight into Technical and Economic Feasibility of this Less-Common Turbine Design

Offshore VAWTs, Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Author: Sandia National LaboratoriesPublication: Office of EE & Renewable EnergyYear Published: 2018 A new study by Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) provides a window into the technical and economic feasibility for deep-water offshore installations of a less-common wind turbine design: the vertical-axis wind turbine, or VAWT, as opposed to the horizontal-axis wind turbines commonly seen on…

Innovative Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Rotors

Offshore VAWTs, Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Author: Joshua Paquette, Matthew BaronePublication: Sandia National LaboratoriesYear Published: 2012 The overarching project objective is to investigate the feasibility of the VAWT architecture for very large-scale deployment in the offshore environment. The most critical barrier to offshore wind, its high cost of energy (COE), is specifically targeted with the overall goal of achieving a 20%…

Conceptual design of a large-scale floating offshore vertical axis wind turbine

Offshore VAWTs, Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Author: Brian Hand, Andrew CashmanPublication: Energy ProcediaYear Published: 2017 Large-scale floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are an attractive and economical solution to harness superior offshore wind resources in deep water locations. This paper presents the conceptual design of a VAWT for this application using a developed aerodynamic modelling strategy. A comprehensive examination of several…