Dr. Kathryn Johnson, one of our Electrical Engineering professors, was featured in a Mines News article featuring her work contributing to the U.S. Department of Energy program’s clean energy transition. Dr. Johnson has been working with her colleagues to expand the capacity for offshore windfarms in the United States! Currently only two offshore windfarms are being run in the U.S. – one in Rhode Island and one in Virginia. Dr. Johnson’s team has been focusing of a few different themes: metocean (understanding the atmosphere and the environment), turbine and farm (for which Johnson is co-leading with the PNNL-based lead), grid (how to transmit and distribute the electricity generated) and SciML (scientific machine learning) Digital Energy, a cross-cutting team compiling the science and engineering work from the other teams to better understand how the different themes intersect.
Read the entire article in Mines Newsroom.