MIT Wind Energy Projects in Action

About Us

MIT Wind Energy Projects in Action is a project oriented student team focused on learning wind energy engineering through hands on experience. WEPA works with MIT Facilities, neighboring municipalities, donors and members of industry to implement projects that produce wind based renewable energy solutions and to advance knowledge on use and strategies of such energy approaches through research and educational outreach. Current WEPA projects involve wind resource assessment and project feasibility studies on the MIT campus and in neighboring communities.

Email us at wepa "at" mit.edu if you are a student interested in joining our team!

Officers

Reports and publications

Alex Kalmikov, Guillaume Dupont, Katherine Dykes, Cy Chan, "Wind Power Resource Assessment in Complex Urban Environments: MIT Campus Case-Study Using CFD Analysis", American Wind Energy Association Wind Power Conference and Exhibition WINDPOWER2010, May 23, 2010. (PDF)

Kathy Araujo, Katherine Dykes, Cy Chan, Alex Kalmikov, Kevin Ferrigno, Bryan Palmintier, Sungho Lee, Mark Lipson, "Feasibility Study -- Project Full Breeze", Project report submitted to MIT Facilities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 27, 2010. (PDF)

Cy Chan, Pamela Silva, Chao Zhang, "Danehy Park Wind Turbine Project -- Preliminary Assessment Report", Project report submitted to the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 27, 2011. (PDF)

Alex Kalmikov, Yuewei Ji, Maria Cassidy, "MIT Bates Linear Accelerator Center Wind Energy Resource Assessment Project, Preliminary Analysis Report", Project report submitted to MIT Bates Linear Accelerator Center, December 8, 2011. (PDF)

Alex Kalmikov, "Uncovering MIT wind myths through micro-climatological CFD analysis", arXiv preprint, arXiv:1310.3538. (PDF)

Alex Kalmikov, "Wind Power Fundamentals", Chapter 2 in Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines, Academic Press, 2017. Pages 17-24, ISBN 9780128094518, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809451-8.00002-3. (PDF)

Posters and presentations

Alex Kalmikov, Guillaume Dupont, Katherine Dykes, Cy Chan, "Wind Power Resource Assessment in Complex Urban Environments: MIT Campus Case-Study Using CFD Analysis", American Wind Energy Association Wind Power Conference and Exhibition WINDPOWER2010, May 23, 2010. (PDF)

Cy Chan, James Stalker, Katherine Dykes, Alex Kalmikov, Stephen Connors, Resource Assessment Overview and MIT Full Breeze Case Study, MIT Wind Week, January 18, 2011. (PDF)

Cy Chan, Pamela Silva, Chao Zhang, "Cambridge Danehy Park Wind Turbine Preliminary Project Assessment", MIT Energy Night, October 2011. (PDF)

Alex Kalmikov, Yuewei Ji, Maria Cassidy, "MIT Bates Linear Accelerator Center Wind Energy Resource Assessment Project, Preliminary Analysis Report", Presented at MIT Bates Linear Accelerator Center, December 8, 2011. (PDF)

Education and outreach

Alex Kalmikov, "Introduction to Wind Power", Lecture notes for 22.081J Introduction to Sustainable Energy, 1.818/2.65/3.564/10.391/11.371/22.811/ESD.166 Sustainable Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. (PDF)

 

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