Services

1. Data Processing and Analysis

• Cleaning or “QA”ing
• Data archiving

2. Windfarm Energy Assessment

• Data analysis; a qualitative assessment of the wind conditions, such as wind direction, seasonal and daily wind patterns, vertical shear and turbulence
• Quantitative analysis includes estimates of long term mean speeds and energy yield
• Terrain modeling is used which looks at atmospheric stability, topography, relative exposure to the met tower and ground cover
• Array loss estimates using my own empirical model based in part on my DOE studies as well as openWind model

3. Design Windfarm Layouts

• Layouts evolve over time as property status and constraints may change.
• Final micro-siting in the field.

4. Turbine/Site Suitability

• Filling out turbine vendors’ climatological forms that list information about turbulence, shear, expected peak winds, mean speed, wind speed/direction distribution to determine whether or not a given turbine and layout is suitable

5. Define a Measurement Strategy and Monitoring Network

• Met tower siting, recommend instrumentation

6. Due Diligence

• Review of another’s energy assessment as well as the associated wind data to make an independent energy assessment

7. Climatological studies and windfarm performance

• Determination of how windy each month has been compared to normal
• Calculation what the windfarm output should have been and compare to actual

8. Wind Prospecting

• Using basic information such as transmission lines and a definition of the area needed to be looked at, look for favorable topography