Teaching ‘selfish’ wind turbines to share can boost productivity
September 22, 2022In the media
Research led by Michael Howland (Civil and Environmental Engineering) shows that coordinating the orientation of turbines on a wind farm can reduce the wake effect and boost energy production.
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Energy of the Future
MITEI Energy UROP Penelope Swain ’29 quantified energy burden across the United States to aid the evaluation of policies incentivizing solar energy and electric vehicles.
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A new way of simulating wind turbines in the field shows how tweaking turbine operation could unlock tens of thousands of dollars per turbine every year.