NIST awards DWEA a grant to develop SMART Wind Consortium-led Roadmap

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has announced that the Distributed Wind Energy Association was awarded a 2-year grant to form a consortium of distributed wind energy equipment manufacturers, suppliers, customers, and university researchers and develop a roadmap to identify common manufacturing gaps, prioritise actions to close these gaps, and foster rapid transfer of solutions. Their vision is to leverage industry-academic dialogue to develop strategies to aid distributed wind industry growth and advance innovative manufacturing techniques by increasing production volumes and reducing lifecycle costs while maintaining high quality.