Wind Energy
Wind energy research at PNNL enables the innovations needed to advance the nation’s wind energy systems and support grid reliability.
Wind Resource Characterization
PNNL modeling, instrumentation, and data management expertise are improving the accuracy of wind forecasts for energy and weather applications.
Wind Data Management
PNNL manages DOE’s Wind Data Hub, which is designed to collect, store, curate, catalog, preserve, and provide massive amounts of experimental and computational result.
Environmental Monitoring and Wind-Wildlife Impacts
PNNL research is helping reveal the intersection of wildlife and wind turbine technology.
Wind Systems Integration
Integrating renewables with the grid.
Grid Cybersecurity
PNNL supports the U.S. Department of Energy’s cybersecurity goal of strengthening today’s energy delivery systems and creating more resilient, self-defending energy systems for the future. With more than 100 technical experts focused on cybersecurity infrastructure research and solutions, PNNL has been advancing the reliability and security of the nation's power system for more than a decade.
Grid Energy Storage
Redox. Vanadium. When combined with “batteries,” these highly technical words describe an equally daunting goal: development of energy storage technologies to support the nation’s power grid. Energy storage neatly balances electricity supply and demand. Renewable energy, like wind and solar, can at times exceed demand. Energy storage systems can store that excess energy until electricity production drops and the energy can be deposited back to the power grid.
Grid Integration, Controls, and Architecture
PNNL is leading research efforts to integrate, control, and fully utilize energy storage technologies as part of a modern, decarbonized electric grid.
Electrochemical Energy Storage
PNNL is leveraging fundamental science and industry engagements to deliver commercially relevant processes, technology, and systems for next-generation electrochemical technologies.