SBIR/STTR Research Award
Tapered Composite Wind Turbine Tower Utilizing CNC-Machined Pultruded Lineals
Award amount
$998,853Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- EBERT COMPOSITES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- 2012-08-14
- UEI
- RBMKLFLCH6M8
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0000350
- Topic code
- 20 a
Research abstract
The wind turbine industry is in need of lighter weight and lower cost support towers. Composite materials can offer many advantages to small wind systems. But also, the technology developed in the Phase I can apply to very large wind turbines up to 5 MW, and in environments of the future, such as off-shore in the US in deep water.During Phase I, Ebert Composites has developed a hybrid composite pole support that can be adapted to very large wind turbine structures. Working with the University of Maine, Ebert has developed a low cost hybrid pole structure that has great potential for off-shore applications. Additionally, the technology can scale to any sized installation including small wind at 100 KW.Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: Ebert
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Development of a Low Maintenance Composite Tower to Replace the AB-1368 Tower
- Development and Evaluation of Non-Delaminating Low Maintenance Radome Technology
- Rapid Assembly of Durable Composite Radome Panels Using Low-Cost Snap-Lock Connection Technology
- Hydrophobic/Non-Delaminating Radome Material
- Tapered Composite Wind Turbine Tower Utilizing CNC-Machined Pultruded Lineals
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- A Wireline Cone Penetrometer System for Characterization of Radionuclides including Technetium-99
- Near Net Shape Consolidation of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloy Powders
- Enhanced Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Reservoir Imaging
- Low-Cost, High-Performance Hybrid Membranes for Redox Flow Batteries
Research funding history
12 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2020). Reported award amounts total $8,306,441. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy