NREL to open wind-turbine test site Tuesday

LOUISVILLE – A $20 million wind-turbine testing facility will open Tuesday at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center at 18299 W. 120th Ave. in Louisville.

The site, on the south side of 120th Avenue east of Colorado Highway 93, was chosen as a good place to test wind-turbine equipment because it’s an “excellent wind resource” of winds that come from the mouth of Eldorado Canyon to the west, said David Glickson, a spokesman for Golden-based NREL. A U.S. Department of Energy grant and funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act were used to build the new facility,…