BYU Wind Energy Club

BYU Wind Energy Club The BYU Wind Energy Club, as we compete in the Collegiate Wind Competition in April 2025!

Kicking off the new semester with a visit to the Spanish Fork wind farm! The Wind Energy Club met with the site manager ...
09/26/2025

Kicking off the new semester with a visit to the Spanish Fork wind farm! The Wind Energy Club met with the site manager and learned all about the turbines, power production, and policies that make the wind farm run.

Where should we go next??

WIND. SPIN. WIN.🏆🎉🥇Collegiate Wind Competition National Champions! 🏆🎉🥇Proud to say that the BYU Wind Energy Team took 1s...
05/16/2025

WIND. SPIN. WIN.
🏆🎉🥇Collegiate Wind Competition National Champions! 🏆🎉🥇
Proud to say that the BYU Wind Energy Team took 1st place at the CWC in Boulder, Colorado this week! It was an intense competition but our hard work paid off! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project in Turbine Design, Project Development, and Connection Creation!

It was a pleasure to compete with Rice University, California Polytechnic State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, California Maritime Academy, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, The University of Texas at Dallas, and Virginia Tech! You all made it an exciting, competitive, and collaborative competition!

Special thanks to Made Welding & Fabrication

04/09/2025

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃

Setbacks are a part of any project, but sometimes they happen with a literal bang.
This lightning-fast failure took us by surprise but teamwork and creative thinking have allowed the team to recover quickly and improve our wind turbine's design.

What setbacks have you experienced and how did you overcome them? 👀Comment below!

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃What does it mean when you have a 3 MW Wind Turbine?That number is the wind turbine’s rated capa...
04/03/2025

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃
What does it mean when you have a 3 MW Wind Turbine?

That number is the wind turbine’s rated capacity, which means that in the ideal wind conditions for that turbine, it will produce that much power.

What does that mean for me?
Well, wind turbines (on land) on average generate 25% or more of their capacity. So in 1 year it will produce a minimum of (3 MW)*0.25*(365 days)*(24 hours/day) = 6,570 MWh of electricity!

And?
A typical Utah home consumes about 16,000 kWh of electricity in a year, that means that a single 3 MW wind turbine can power over 400 homes for a year!

03/27/2025

It's Wind Wednesday!! 🌬️

What is renewable energy?
Did you know Utah has all 5 types of renewable energy facilities?!

03/20/2025

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃
Check out our team's floating wind turbine! Swipe for a test run of the emergency stop feature 👀
We are getting excited for the CWC competition!

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃Utah is a net energy positive state. That means we produce more energy than we use. That is poss...
03/13/2025

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃

Utah is a net energy positive state. That means we produce more energy than we use. That is possible in part due to Utah’s renewable energy generation through solar, wind, and hydro plants. The two largest wind farms in Utah (Milford and Monticello) send most of their power to California.💪

Where have you seen renewable energy generation in Utah? 👀

03/06/2025

It's Wind Wednesday!! 🌬️

What is renewable energy?
Did you know Utah has all 5 types of renewable energy facilities?!

*American fork wind farm → Spanish fork wind farm

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃Meet Utah’s three wind farms! Here are some fun facts about them:The most well known, in Spanish...
02/27/2025

It’s Wind Wednesday! 🌬️🍃

Meet Utah’s three wind farms! Here are some fun facts about them:
The most well known, in Spanish Fork, is actually the smallest of them all.

They have a total rated capacity of 386 MW and in 2022 they produced enough energy to power 22,700 homes for the year! 🏡

Wind power makes up 10% of Utah’s renewable energy generation!

Comment below with any questions you have about wind energy!

Staying cool, having fun! 💨Had our subsystem review today, NAILED IT!
03/01/2024

Staying cool, having fun! 💨

Had our subsystem review today, NAILED IT!

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