Resource and Project Energy Assessment 2019

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Registration & Exhibits

10 Sep 19

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

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Networking Breakfast & Exhibits

10 Sep 19

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

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Welcome & Opening Session

10 Sep 19

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Moderator(s): Patrick Pyle; Christopher Ziesler

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P50 Bias Update – Are we there yet?

10 Sep 19

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Speaker(s): Christopher Ziesler; Katy Briggs; Holly Burnett; Tadd Lisman; Stephanie VanKempen

Moderator(s): Matthew Hendrickson

This session revisits the age-old question of how projects have performed against pre-construction estimates. Consolidated answers will be presente... More...

Networking Break & Exhibits

10 Sep 19

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Banter on Blockage: Current Status and Debate

10 Sep 19

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Speaker(s): Eron Jones; Nicholas Robinson; Taurin Spalding; Jessica Lee

Moderator(s): Melissa Elkinton

In Spring 2018, blockage effects were first considered and quantified in some experts’ energy assessments. Last September at this conference,... More...

Wind Plant Performance Prediction Benchmarking Project Update

10 Sep 19

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Speaker(s): Jason Fields

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Networking Lunch & Exhibits

10 Sep 19

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

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Wind Flow Modeling and Uncertainty

10 Sep 19

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Speaker(s): Casey Hilgenbrink; Peter Stamus; Daniel Vassallo; Matthew Breakey

Moderator(s): Philippe Beaucage

The wind energy industry widely recognizes that wind flow modeling remains the largest individual source of uncertainty in most energy production e... More...

Networking Break & Exhibits

10 Sep 19

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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Time Series Energy Modeling

10 Sep 19

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Speaker(s): Gil Lizcano; Annalise Miller; Wiebke Langreder; Adnan Shah

Moderator(s): Carl Ostridge

Wind farm development decisions (where and when to build, which technology to use, how to sell the power, etc.) are based on the value of energy pr... More...

Consortium for Advancement of Remote Sensing Update (Grand Ballroom)

10 Sep 19

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Moderator(s): Philippe Pontbriand

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Networking & Poster Reception

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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A multi-project validation of wake loss estimates at onshore wind farms

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: P50 Bias

Speaker(s): Mark Stoelinga

Wake loss estimation is a key input to pre-construction energy estimates and remains a significant source of their uncertainty. Prior validation st... More...

Poster: Wind Plant Performance Prediction Benchmarking Project Update

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Field Results of New SoDAR Algorithms

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Remote Sensing - Advances in Met Campaigns

Speaker(s): Andrew Black

A new generation of SoDAR measurement algorithms were validated at ten sites with collocated met towers. Raw acoustic data was collected, allowing ... More...

Data Quality Impacts on Repower Energy Estimate Uncertainty

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Repowering

Speaker(s): Matthew Bullard

Wind farm Repower energy assessments are often based off both meteorological and operational data which is subject to significant quality issues. T... More...

Dealing With Waked Measurements

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Wind Flow Modeling (Special focus on uncertainty)

Speaker(s): Mike Burghart

As wind industry build-out continues, it is more common to encounter measurements with data collected in a waked environment. What used to be consi... More...

Valuable Lessons from Outliers in a Wind Energy Resource Assessment Benchmark Study

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: P50 Bias

Speaker(s): Jerry Crescenti

Wind energy resource assessment (WERA) techniques, wind farm operations and investor confidence can be improved by evaluating the root causes of ou... More...

Using Shear Extrapolation to Fill Removed Low Quality Data for Upper Remote Sensing Heights

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Remote Sensing - Advances in Met Campaigns

Speaker(s): Halley Darling

Remote sensing is becoming more widely used in part due to higher height measurements than met towers, but a limiting factor is data attenuation wi... More...

A Holistic Approach to the Digitalization of Wind Energy

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Data Science and Digitalization

Speaker(s): Michael Purdue

The wind industry has already made progress digitalizing specific segments of the wind energy lifecycle. But, much remains to be done to reduce lif... More...

Poster: What Exactly Are We Assessing with 12x24s?

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Time Series Energy Modeling

Speaker(s): Dylan Humenik

The 12x24 production matrix is an important product developed in a wind resource assessment used to more accurately model the commercial efficiency... More...

Blockage, Wind Farm-Atmosphere Interaction, and Wakes at a Coastal Wind Farm

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Blockage Effect

Speaker(s): Eron Jones

Wind flow retardation (blockage), acceleration, and wakes, are estimated for a tropical coastal wind farm using an unusually robust data set of pre... More...

Lessons Learned from the Share-03 Exercise of the Power Curve Working Group

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Data Science and Digitalization

Speaker(s): Joseph C. Y. Lee

The Share-03 exercise is the most recent intelligence-sharing exercise of the Power Curve Working Group, which focuses on advancing the modeling of... More...

Shorter wind data for AEP calculation and risk analyses

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Longer-Term Influences

Speaker(s): Ana Poenariu

Recently market and customer demand is focusing more on shorter periods of wind measurements for annual energy production (AEP) prognosis when a go... More...

Advanced wind energy prediction procedure to include wake interaction effects in assessments

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Blockage Effect

Speaker(s): Nicolas Fatras

Most commercial turbine interaction models nowadays neglect upstream and lateral turbine interactions, referred to as blockage effects, only focusi... More...

Data Driven Optimization of Curtailment Strategies Under Turbine Operating Constraints

10 Sep 19

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Data Science and Digitalization

Speaker(s): Jonathan Rogers

The collection of large meteorological data sets, when combined with on-site sensing, offers unique opportunities to increase power production thro... More...

Registration Open

11 Sep 19

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

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Networking Breakfast & Exhibits

11 Sep 19

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

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America’s Once and Future Wind Resource

11 Sep 19

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Speaker(s): Scott Eichelberger; Greg Poulos; Jeff Freedman; Alex Head

Moderator(s): Daran Rife

Wind farm developers and investors are increasingly concerned about the potential (negative) impacts of climate change on future wind resource and ... More...

Networking Break & Exhibits

11 Sep 19

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

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Embracing the Future: How to Win(d) Big with Remote Sensing

11 Sep 19

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Speaker(s): Paul Mazoyer; Matthew Filippelli; Philippe Pontbriand; Kenneth Jaffe; Paul Legac

Moderator(s): Alexandra St. Pé

A pressing question in the wind industry remains - how can we reduce the cost of wind energy and de-risk future projects? Development and ali... More...

Power Curve Working Group Update

11 Sep 19

11:30 AM - 11:45 PM

Moderator(s): Taylor Geer

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IEC 61400-15 Standard: Progress Update and Call for Participation (Grand Ballroom)

11 Sep 19

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Moderator(s): Matthew Filippelli

The IEC 61400-15 Working Group has been diligently developing a Standard to address wind resource assessment reporting, uncertainty, and site suita... More...

Networking Lunch & Exhibits

11 Sep 19

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Wind Speed Dating: Time to Throw Caution to the Wind

11 Sep 19

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Speaker(s): Linda Sloka; Aaron Perry; Matthew Bullard; Jordan Perr-Sauer; Jack Kline; Eric Grimit; Dylan Humenik

Moderator(s): Mackenzie Tocco

The rapid fire session you’ve been searching for your whole life. Introducing seven presenters that are ready to spark interesting conversati... More...