NMSU Internships

    On June 9, NMSU students Jacqueline Sánchez and Zac Mills began off campus summer internships with industry and a national laboratory. Jacqueline is interning with Southwest Windpower in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is assisting the business office on small wind turbine commercialization and marketing. Her experience will prove useful for potential commercialization of the ITESM small wind turbine.

    Zac Mills is interning with the National Wind Test Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Bolden, Colorado. Zac is working on data archiving and analysis for four windfarms, including the Public Service Company windfarm in New Mexico. The voltage and actual data correspond to RMS (Root Mean Square) transient events mainly in the form of power surges and ebbs when wind speeds change that gauge how many turbines go offline. This serves as a check for a windfarm model that predicts transient events and affects on power systems. This information will prove helpful to windfarm development along the Border.