Wind Energy Publications

Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia program, the Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) convened the SMART Wind Consortium to identify industry-wide research and manufacturing gaps and barriers, prioritize solutions to those gaps for today and for future scalability, and facilitate a rapid transfer of innovation into American-manufactured wind turbines.

The SMART Wind Consortium linked more than two dozen distributed wind energy equipment manufacturers, 50 other vendors and industry supply chain members, researchers from four federal laboratories, 30 academic stakeholders, and nearly 20 nonprofit organizations, government representatives, and other stakeholders. The project's vision is to inspire joint industry-academic R&D investments to advance innovative manufacturing techniques and aid rapid distributed wind growth both domestically and with exports. The SMART Wind Roadmap summarizes the findings of the Consortium.