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What is the defense & disaster deployable turbine project?

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine project brought technology developers and researchers together with military and disaster response organizations to learn what kind of wind turbine system could best serve their needs.

Could a wind turbine serve a military or humanitarian mission?

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, D3T brought together experts from INL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Sandia National Laboratories to analyze how to build a wind turbine that could serve both military and humanitarian missions around the world.

Are wind turbines a good option for the military?

Deployable wind turbines can reduce both the amount of diesel needed and the number of troops put at risk in slow-moving supply convoys, keeping military personnel focused on the larger mission. But unlike solar panels, traditional wind turbines are not easy to transport and install. Most require cement, heavy towers, and large cranes to erect.

Can a wind turbine be deployed?

Adding wind energy (plus energy storage, like batteries) could help maintain power for communications, water filtration, heat, lights, and medical equipment. And yet, designing a deployable wind turbine—one that is quick and easy to ship and install—is not a simple task.

Can a wind turbine be deployed to a mission?

The potential benefit of a deployable wind turbine to a particular mission can be assessed during the mission planning stage. The potential power production of a wind turbine requires, at a minimum, two pieces of information: the likely wind resource during the span of the mission and the power curve of the available wind turbine.

Can wind power military and disaster relief efforts?

That is one reason why Houchens, along with collaborators at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, spent the last four years exploring how wind energy could power both military and disaster relief efforts—both of which need fast and reliable power to succeed.