Resource and Project Energy Assessment 2018

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12 Sep 18
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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Conservatism in Shadow Flicker Assessment and Wind Farm Design

12 Sep 18
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Speaker(s): Marcel Mibus
As turbine heights and rotor diameters continue to increase, with increasingly stringent regulations, turbine siting becomes increasing constrained... More...

Explore Appropriate Approaches to Produce Pxx 8760 Profiles Considering Atmospheric Persistence

12 Sep 18
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Time Series Energy Modeling

Speaker(s): Hong Liu
Many off-takers and asset managers require that the 8760 profiles at different probability exceedance (Pxx) levels be provided. The approaches to e... More...

Maximizing Project Economics Through Project Capacity Overbuild

12 Sep 18
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Speaker(s): Errol Halberg
The wind industry is getting increasingly competitive with the trend in electricity rates heading steadily down. Optimizing wind farms to maximize ... More...

Nuance in the Time Domain

12 Sep 18
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Time Series Energy Modeling

Speaker(s): Kevin Walter
As more offtake arrangements rely on the accuracy of pre-construction predictions of the time variance of power production, work in recent years ... More...

Time Series Modeling

12 Sep 18
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Time Series Energy Modeling

Speaker(s): Cory Cox
Traditional IEC Standards use 10-minutes averages to measure power performance. The energy density in these measurements are not always equal to th... More...

Wind Turbine Availability Time Series Analysis and Modeling

12 Sep 18
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Time Series Energy Modeling

Speaker(s): Jonas Asuma
Downtime associated with wind turbine availability is one of the largest causes of wind farm inefficiency. Here we investigate wind turbine availab... More...

Networking Break & Exhibits

12 Sep 18
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Evolution of Energy Production Estimation Methods

12 Sep 18
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Christopher Ziesler ; Eron Jones ; Matthew Eberhard ; Paul Legac ; Taylor Geer
Methods and best practices of estimating pre-construction energy production has been a topic of much discussion and improvement in the US over the ... More...

Networking Lunch & Exhibits

12 Sep 18
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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8 Minute ABS (Accelerated But Significant)

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Jared Kassebaum
Eight different presenters will give 8 minute talks covering a vast range of exciting topics. This session will feature something for everyone.&nbs... More...

A New Method to Assess Wind Farm Performance and Quantify Model Uncertainty

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Walls
A novel approach of assessing a wind farm’s performance using pre-construction and operational met data has been developed and will be presen... More...

Analysis of Vestas turbines performance

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Michael Pram Nielsen
The continuous increase of competence among different sources of renewable energy has originated a noticeable reduction of its cost. This process h... More...

Are Climate Change Predictions Visible in our Current Data Sets

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Alex Head
We will discuss a recent report on the effect of climate change on wind energy production due to projected wind resource changes. We will provide a... More...

Best practices for quantifying, interpreting, and utilizing Atmospheric Stability measurements using standard wind resource assessment sensors and CFD simulations

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Steven Clark
This presentation summarizes the results of a collaborative atmospheric study with contributions from Steven Clark (NRG Systems), Catherine Me... More...

Lightning Talks - Are Your Charts Working? Making Descriptive and Effective Plots

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Kimberly Gudorf
Good visualizations are the most powerful form of communication. Our community’s energy assessment methodologies have been developed and refi... More...

Power Curve Performance Test with SODAR, LiDAR, and Anemometer: A Comparison Study.

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Rolando Tejeda
Wind operators and developers have advanced significantly in regards to the usage of remote sensing devices (RSD); however, the industry has been s... More...

Time Series Wind Resource Assessment for Microgrid Systems: A Case Study

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Ran Chen
More and more microgrid systems around the world are considering incorporating renewable energy into their power generation asset. When wind energy... More...

Valuing Portfolio Effects

12 Sep 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Aaron Perry
So, portfolio effects due to geographic & technology diversity exist. Some people are starting to calculate them. But not many people understan... More...

Networking Break & Exhibits

12 Sep 18
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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A New Analytical Framework to Improve Risk Quantification and Optimize Measurement Campaigns

12 Sep 18
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): Karim Fahssis
An accurate assessment of the uncertainty is critical for evaluating the bankability of a future wind project, yet the pre-construction estimation ... More...

Accounting for Blockage Effects in Energy Production Assessments

12 Sep 18
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): James Bleeg
Recent evidence shows that blockage effects cause upstream wind speed reductions that are more pronounced and far-reaching than commonly assumed. T... More...

Characterizing Wind Flow Modeling Uncertainty

12 Sep 18
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Walls
In the pre-construction phase of a wind farm, a considerable amount of time, effort, and money is often devoted to building a wind flow model to pr... More...

Improving Wind Speed Predictions Using Ensemble Flow Modeling

12 Sep 18
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): Taurin Spalding
Energy yield predictions on a given wind farm site will often make use of a single wind flow model. In some cases, multiple models may be considere... More...

Round-Robin Validation of Spatial Wind Modeling at a Site with a Large Number of Towers

12 Sep 18
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): Annie Guiler
Several recent studies have compared the relative performance of different classes of spatial wind modeling techniques. These classes usually inclu... More...

Closing Session

12 Sep 18
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Patrick Pyle
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