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WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

Track: TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Monday, 14 September 2009, 16:00 - 17:30

Room K2

Chair:
Ndaona Chokani, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Ignacio Marti, CENER, Spain

Session description

The risk in the performance of a wind energy project is impacted by a large number of parameters, not least of which is the wind resource. A correct estimate of the wind resource can make or break the economics of a wind energy project. Therefore, this resource must be accurately detailed both for the short and long term, and fine & coarse spatial resolutions. A higher level of confidence in the wind resource assessment facilitates the financing and the subsequent operation of the wind energy project. In this session, innovative measurements and computer modelling techniques that are used to detail and exploit the offshore wind resource, over different spatial and temporal scales, will be presented.

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WIND STATISTICS OFFSHORE BASED ON SATELLITE IMAGES 
Charlotte Hasager, Risø DTU, Denmark  
AT4.1 
A NEW WIND MAP FOR THE NORTH SEA - COMBINING THE STRENGTHS OF EARTH OBSERVATION DATA, MESOSCALE MODELLING AND MAST MEASUREMENTS 
Joseph Phillips, Garrad Hassan, United Kingdom  
AT4.2 
IMPROVED MODELLING OF WAKES AND POWER OUTPUT IN LARGE OFFSHORE WIND FARMS BASED ON DATA FROM NYSTED AND HORNS REV 
Leo E. Jensen, DONG Energy, Denmark  
AT4.3 
POWER PERFORMANCE AND WAKE EFFECTS IN THE CLOSELY SPACED LILLGRUND OFFSHORE WIND FARM 
Jan-Åke Dahlberg, Vattenfall, Sweden  
AT4.4 
EU-NORSEWIND – ASSESSMENT OF VIABILITY OF OPEN SOURCE CFD CODE FOR THE WIND INDUSTRY  
Matt Stickland, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom  
AT4.5