A perspective on lessons learned and future needs for wind energy field campaigns
This perspective paper provides motivation and guidance to the wind energy community for suggested future investments and a long-term strategy for wind-energy-related field campaigns that will provide much-needed observations for improving wind energy science and model validation. We synthesize key lessons learned from past field campaigns, identify critical science gaps that we think should drive future field efforts, and provide a suggested pipeline on how future endeavors should be developed. When considering future grand field campaigns, we stress the need for international cooperation across funding bodies, research institutes, and industry partners to collect observations to overcome current and future grand challenges for wind energy.
Authors
- Paula Doubrawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0660-7212)
- Nicholas Hamilton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3462-341X)
- Colleen Kaul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4462-0987)
- Jakob Mann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6096-611X)
- Luke Lavin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3156-9323)
- Raghavendra Krishnamurthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9718-4218)
- David Maniaci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-8005)
- Jonathan Naughton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5903-8500)
- Georgios Deskos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7592-7191)
- Patrick Moriarty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7122-5993)
- Stefano Letizia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5999-0131)
- Jerome D. Fast (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-5675)
- Nicola Bodini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2550-9853)
- Sonia Wharton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0192-5668)
- Julie K. Lundquist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-2702)
- C.D. Kelley
- T. Herges
Institutions
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)
- University of Wyoming (US)
- National Laboratory of the Rockies (US)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Sandia National Laboratories (US)
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0252362
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.99
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy