Go Tigers!

Just finished this small “industry booklet” for Clemson, highlighting their Restoration Institute’s remarkable wind turbine testing facility which is currently under development. It was a fun and eye-opening experience to work with Clemson’s media team and learn all about what’s going on up there. Some truly incredible stuff. From their site…

The next-generation wind turbines and drive trains will be tested by the Clemson University Restoration Institute in a move that is expected to create hundreds of jobs and place one of the most important sites for wind energy research and development in South Carolina.

The Clemson University Restoration Institute and its partners have received a $45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, combined with $53 million of matching funds, to build and operate a large-scale wind turbine drive train testing facility at the institute’s research campus on the former Navy base.

A drive train takes energy generated by a turbine’s blades and increases the rotational speed to drive the electrical generator, similar to the transmission in a car.

The award is the largest single grant ever received in the university’s history and represents an enormous economic development opportunity for the region.

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