Dear global wind energy community,
Do you find it difficult to decide which Wind Resource Assessments (WRA) tool to apply to which site? Or wish you could better understand how your choices affect the overall project risks?
In this challenge, you get the chance to contribute to developing a decision tool for choosing the most effective WRA tool for a given wind energy project!
This is Stage 2 of the Swiss-funded project “Comparison metrics simulation challenge”, which is coordinated within the IEA-Wind Task 31 “Wakebench”, in which we are developing the new decision tool. In Stage 1, participants were asked to submit simulation results of the Perdigao site in Portugal along with their estimations of the cost and skill of each applied WRA tool. The results have been used to develop an improved method for predicting cost and skill of different WRA tools, as well as to design the new decision tool (presentation at WESC2021 at the end of May).
In this Stage 2, participants are asked to submit results of already existing simulations and WRAs for any site. This will be done using a pre-defined template and survey, in which you enter details of the site, your tool set-up, your experience, the estimated set-up and simulation costs as well as the resulting wind speeds and/or energy production at a location for which measurement data is available. Our decision tool will then estimate skill and cost scores of the submitted results using pre-defined weighted parameters, as well as classify the terrain complexity. We will compare the results to the actual skill of the simulations, obtained by comparing the results to the provided measurements. This will help us refine the decision algorithm, parameter weightings and complex terrain classification method.
The challenge is being run on the new WeDoWind platform, which allows goal-oriented collaboration based on real industry challenges. The full challenge description and templates are available on the platform. You can also use the platform to exchange ideas and experience with other participants - and to communicate with the organisers.
The challenge runs from June 1st until September 30th, 2021. You can register to take part below at any time. We will be in touch with platform access information.
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This challenge is being run via a collaboration between The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network, IEA Wind Task 31, the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and Stacker Group.
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