Grand Challenges in the Science of Wind Energy

NREL wind energy researchers illuminate the grand challenges in wind energy science that need to be addressed to make it one of the world's primary sources of low-cost electricity generation. The international scientific community is invited to help to tackle these challenges.

An international group of researchers led by NREL published a thought-leader article on the topic last year in Science. In addition to written discussion on the topic, several authors of the report held a webinar to highlight the nature of the grand challenges and walk through some of the reasons these issues remain unsolved. They also highlight the interconnected nature of the challenges and how this necessitates a new discipline of wind energy science, and the systems perspective it provides, to help wind energy reach its full potential—supplying as much as one-third to one-half of the world's electricity needs.

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