NAWEA/WindTech 2024
NAWEA/WindTech 2024
Editor(s): WES associate editors

This special issue collects papers based on presentations given at NAWEA/WindTech 2024, the premier technical conference on wind energy in North America.

As per the conference announcement, The 2024 theme of the conference centers on a future where high levels of wind energy deployment meet the needs of a grid dominated by renewables. The conference will feature the latest research to integrate wind with solar, marine hydrokinetic, storage, and other renewables into the complex and highly interdependent energy system of the future and address the social and environmental issues at the core of such an expansion. All of the ‘Grand Challenges’ of wind energy will be included: the social, environmental, grid integrations, plant optimization, turbine technology, and atmospheric/ocean science aspects of wind as a foundation of the energy system of the future.

Review process: all papers of this special issue underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of Wind Energy Science handled by members of the WES editorial board.

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10 Dec 2024
Building a Diverse and Equitable Distributed Wind Workforce: A Strategic Approach to Collaborator Selection
Kendall Parker, Kamila Kazimierczuk, Micah Taylor, Danielle Preziuso, and Andrew White
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-145,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-145, 2024
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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09 Dec 2024
Evaluating the ability of the operational High Resolution Rapid Refresh model version 3 (HRRRv3) and version 4 (HRRRv4) to forecast wind ramp events in the US Great Plains
Laura Bianco, Reagan Mendeke, Jake Lindblom, Irina V. Djalalova, David D. Turner, and James M. Wilczak
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-133,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-133, 2024
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09 Dec 2024
Modeling the effects of active wake mixing on wake behavior through large scale coherent structures
Lawrence Cheung, Gopal Yalla, Prakash Mohan, Alan Hsieh, Kenneth Brown, Nathaniel deVelder, Daniel Houck, and Marc Henry de Frahan
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-155,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-155, 2024
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27 Nov 2024
Obtaining fatigue-based frequency domain specifications for the design of controllers in wind turbines
Irene Miquelez-Madariaga, Jesús Arellano, Daniel Lacheta-Lecumberri, and Jorge Elso
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-154,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-154, 2024
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26 Nov 2024
A parcel-level evaluation of distributed wind opportunity in the contiguous United States
Jane Lockshin, Paula Pérez, Slater Podgorny, Michaela Sizemore, Paritosh Das, Jeffrey D. Laurence-Chasen, Paul Crook, and Caleb Phillips
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-147,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-147, 2024
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25 Nov 2024
A dynamic open-source model to investigate wake dynamics in response to wind farm flow control strategies
Marcus Becker, Maxime Lejeune, Philippe Chatelain, Dries Allaerts, Rafael Mudafort, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-150,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-150, 2024
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20 Nov 2024
COFLEX: A novel set point optimiser and feedforward-feedback control scheme for large flexible wind turbines
Guido Lazzerini, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Fabio Caponetti, Vasu Datta Madireddi, Delphine De Tavernier, and Sebastiaan Paul Mulders
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-151,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-151, 2024
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19 Nov 2024
Operational wind plants increase planetary boundary layer height: An observational study
Aliza Abraham, Matteo Puccioni, Arianna Jordan, Emina Maric, Nicola Bodini, Nicholas Hamilton, Stefano Letizia, Petra M. Klein, Elizabeth Smith, Sonia Wharton, Jonathan Gero, Jamey D. Jacob, Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Rob K. Newsom, Mikhail Pekour, and Patrick Moriarty
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-148,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-148, 2024
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19 Nov 2024
Life Cycle Assessment of New Jersey Offshore Wind
Meghann Smith, Nawal Shoaib, and Pankaj Lal
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-143,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-143, 2024
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15 Nov 2024
Experimental Validation of Parked Loads for a Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine: Wind-Wave Basin Tests
Md Sanower Hossain and D. Todd Griffith
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-156,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-156, 2024
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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04 Nov 2024
Quantifying Tropical Cyclone-Generated Waves in Extreme-Value-Derived Design for Offshore Wind
Sarah McElman, Amrit Verma, and Andrew Goupee
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-129,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-129, 2024
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: final response, 5 comments)
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28 Oct 2024
An analytical formulation for turbulent kinetic energy added by wind turbines based on large-eddy simulation
Ali Khanjari, Asim Feroz, and Cristina Archer
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-128,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-128, 2024
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22 Oct 2024
Sensitivity analysis of numerical modeling input parameters on floating offshore wind turbine loads in extreme idling conditions
Will Wiley, Jason Jonkman, and Amy Robertson
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-130,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-130, 2024
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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09 Sep 2024
On the lidar-turbulence paradox and possible countermeasures
Alfredo Peña, Ginka Georgieva Yankova, and Vasiliki Mallini
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-108,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-108, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for WES (discussion: closed, 4 comments)
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