Walt Musial - Principal Engineer NREL National Renwable Energy Lab

Walt Musial is a principal engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where he has worked for 20-years.  Presently he leads the marine-based renewable energy research activities including offshore wind, wave, and water current energy conversion technology. Prior to this, Walt was in charge of Laboratory Testing for NREL’s National Wind Technology Center and was responsible for the development of NREL’s structural laboratories which include testing facilities for wind turbine blades up to 50-meters and wind turbine drivetrains up 2.5-MW.  Before NREL, Walt was a test engineer in the early days of the California wind farms. He studied wind energy engineering at the University of Massachusetts, where he received his BS and MS degrees..

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