.. _intro-acknowledgements:

Acknowledgements
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External Contributors
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In addition to development by :ref:`developers`, WEC-Sim has had many  contributors, including:

* Ratanak So (Oregon State University)
* Matt Hall (University of Maine)
* Brad Ling (Azura Wave)
* Adam Nelessen (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Sam Kanner (University of California at Berkeley)
* Chris McComb (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Sam Edwards (University of Michigan)

The association with the listed organization is credited to when a contribution to WEC-Sim was made. The contributor may no longer be associated with the listed organization at this time.

Funding
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Development and maintenance of the WEC-Sim code is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office. WEC-Sim code development is a collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. under contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.