Schweitzer paper tops category at expo

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Pullman, announced the company was honored to receive the 2013 Paper of the Year Award in the wind power category at the Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo North America in Orlando, Fla.

The paper was written by SEL employees Michael Thompson, engineering services principal engineer; Tony Martini, engineering services automation engineer, and Nicholas Seeley, research and development lead power engineer.

This paper introduces a centralized and integrated control system for wind farms. Power generated from wind farms is not constant, so they req...