Who should attend?
The course is aimed at windPRO users interested in learning how to do energy yield assessments based on wind measurements.
Prerequisites
windPRO BASIS course or a good understanding of and experience in the topics covered in the BASIS course. Some reading material is mentioned further below.
What you will learn
- Best practices, importing, analysing, and quality controlling wind measurements
- Basics of WAsP methodology for wind flow modelling
- Statistical and Time-based calculation methodologies
- Vertical extrapolation of wind measurements
- Gap-filling/ substituting data across measurement devices
- Online wind database in windPRO: availability, download and usage
- Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP): Long-term correction of wind measurements
- Use of WAsP-CFD in complex terrain: the setup, 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
- RESOURCE for wind resource map generation
- Setting up energy yield calculations (PARK calculations) in the time domain, insight into wakes, curtailment losses, basics of power curve correction for air density, and understanding windPRO results and reports
- Understanding and working with the loss components and uncertainties, and including them in windPRO projects to arrive at P50, P75, P90, etc.
EMD reserves the right to make changes to the course content.
Did you get curious?
Topics like environmental impact assessments, greenfield assessments, optimising a wind farm layout, load assessments, and detailed guidance on loss and uncertainty values are not covered in this course, but you can find answers in our other courses. If you want to know even more, you can reach out for consulting support from our experts.
Some reading to go through for those without a background in wind meteorology or wind resource assessment (WRA):
1. Some basics here.
2. Basics of reanalysis data (video at the bottom of the page) here.
3. WRA guidelines from ADB (Asian Development Bank) here.