Who should attend?
The course is aimed at windPRO users interested in learning how to do energy yield assessments based on wind measurements.
Prerequisites:
BASIS course windPRO. Some reading material at the end of this flyer.
What you will learn:
· Best practices, importing, analyzing, and quality controlling wind measurements
· Basics of WAsP methodology for wind flow modelling
· Statistical and Time-based methodology
· Vertical extrapolation of wind measurements
· Gap-filling/patching/substituting data on same measurement device across heights
· Online wind database in windPRO: availability, download and usage
· Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP): Long-term correction of wind measurements
· Dealing with more than 1 wind measurement device
· Basics of WAsP-CFD for wind flow modelling in complex terrain
· RESOURCE for wind resource map generation
· PARK calculation: Statistical and Time-Varying
· Cost functions · Understanding and working with the loss components (wakes, curtailments, etc.), as well as uncertainties and including them in windPRO projects to arrive at P50, P75, P90, etc. values.
What you will learn (details):
· Handle the Meteo Object to import, analyse and quality control wind data
· Understand the vertical wind speed profile
· Understand the Wind Atlas (WAsP) Method, currently used as standard in wind energy calculations
· Learn about the pitfalls of WAsP
· Understand the differences between the statistical and time-varying approaches
· Vertical extrapolation of wind data from measurement to hub height using measured shear or WAsP – pros and cons of both methods
· Learn MCP techniques to transform a local, short-term time series into a robust, long-term representative data set
· You will also go through several online wind (reference) datasets and different MCP methods
· use wind measurements from two devices: substituting data from one device to another with or without MCP
· Use of WAsP-CFD in complex terrain: setting up the simulations, importing CFD result files (from WAsP-CFD or “.flowres” formats from other CFDs), use CFD results in windPRO and comparison against WAsP in complex terrain
· Setting up energy yield calculations in the time domain, insight into wakes, curtailment losses, basics of power curve correction for air density, cost functions, and understanding windPRO results and reports.
Some reading to go through for those without a background in wind meteorology or wind resource assessment (WRA):
1. Some basics here.
2. For all: Basics of reanalysis data (video at the bottom of the page) here.
3. WRA guidelines from ADB here.
Not included in this course:
The following are not addressed in this course: environmental impact assessments, greenfield/scouting assessments, optimizing a wind farm layout, load assessments, and guidance on loss and uncertainty values to use specifically for your projects/geographies.