Wind resource assessment uncertainty for a TLP-based met mast

How is Virtual Met Mast TM meeting the needs of wind resource assessment in Europe ?

Uncertainty Analysis in Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Energy Production Estimation

This paper presents a mathematical approach to properly account for uncertainty in wind resource assessment and wind energy production estimation. The evaluation of a wind resource and the subsequent estimation of the annual energy production (AEP) is a highly uncertain process. Uncertainty arises at all points in the process, from measuring the wind speed to the uncertainty in a power curve. A...

A New Method for Reducing Uncertainty of Wind Power Based on Fuzzy RLS-MLFE

Due to incremental use of renewable energies, some challenges have been arised in control of wind power systems. One of the important ones is the uncertainty of wind power that affects directly on the cost of utilization. In this paper some algorithms based on the fuzzy logic and neural networks have been implemented to analyze the uncertainty of the wind power using historical data collected f...

Prediction of local wind climatology from Met Office models: Virtual Met Mast techniques

The Met Office has developed the Virtual Met MastTM (VMM) tool for assessing the feasibility of potential wind farm sites. It provides site-specific climatological wind information for both onshore and offshore locations. The VMM relies on existing data from past forecasts from regional-scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, to which corrections are applied to account for local site c...

A Comparison of Wind Flow Models for Wind Resource Assessment in Wind Energy Applications

The objective of this work was to assess the accuracy of various coupled mesoscale-microscale wind flow modeling methodologies for wind energy applications. This is achieved by examining and comparing mean wind speeds from several wind flow modeling methodologies with observational measurements from several 50 m met towers distributed across the study area. At the mesoscale level, with a 5 km r...