Research Facilities

NREL’s Flatirons Campus features state-of-the-art equipment and world-class facilities that support fundamental wind energy research, technology development, experimentation, and validation of components and systems.

The lab's Flatirons Campus is home to field validation sites, dynamometers, structural research facilities, and composites manufacturing and integrated energy systems facilities used by National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) researchers and industry partners to pursue wind energy innovations that improve domestic manufacturing, energy reliability, and grid resilience with the support of low-cost wind energy.

We invite industry partners to learn how they can access NWTC expertise and Flatirons Campus facilities to develop, demonstrate, and de-risk their technologies. 

Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems

Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems is the nation’s most advanced energy systems research platform, offering unmatched scale and complexity to accelerate the validation of secure, affordable, and integrated energy technologies across all sectors of the modern grid.

Controllable Grid Interface

The Controllable Grid Interfaces at NREL's Flatirons Campus are a 7- and 20-MVA systems that can emulate a wide range of grid conditions.

Grid Integration Facilities

Hardware at NREL's grid integration facilities—such as wind turbines—can be connected virtually to the Energy System Integration Facility's software modeling and power hardware-in-the-loop capabilities.