3TIER, a Vaisala company and  leader in renewable energy assessment and forecasting, has announced the public release of wind and solar annual averages from its global datasets as part of Google’s Map Gallery launch. Through its collaboration with Google, 3TIER is excited to make this contribution to the global community and vastly improve access to…

Efficient wind plant operations, energy integration, and power trading require quick decisions with substantial exposure to risk. Such decisions impact production, operational costs, and ultimately project profitability. As one of the largest wind power forecasters in the world, 3TIER says it delivers the accuracy and context needed to manage risk and optimize operations at a…

3TIER, a global leader in renewable energy assessment and forecasting, today announced that its partnership with Clean Electric is expanding to include Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine collectively have ambitious targets to add over 25 GW of renewable energy capacity within the next 10 years. Given these countries’ heavy reliance on fossil fuels for…

A power-market specialist and a renewable-energy risk analysis company have launched a real-time, interactive wind asset valuation tool. WVAL lets investors value more than 3,400 wind projects around the world at the click of a button, using up-to-date tariff, turbine. and wind resource data in the world. “WVAL brings transparency to the world of wind-project…

A renewable energy risk analysis released a wind performance map for the second quarter of 2011. The map illustrates wind speeds above seasonal averages for most of the continental U.S. 3TIER’s second quarter map indicates departures from long-term mean wind speeds that range from -20 to 20% and provides an indication of how wind projects…

Site assessment and forecasting company 3TIER offers 90-m wind prospecting tools. The web-based service gives wind project developers and financiers immediate access to 90-m resolution wind resource data across the continental US, which the company says is the highest resolution data currently available on-demand. Detailed data reveals how even small terrain features will affect wind power generation, enabling anyone with a financial stake in a project to better manage spatial risk during the earliest stages of project development.

A wind performance map for Q1 2011 illustrates that wind speeds were above their seasonal averages for large areas across the Western U.S. 3TIER’s map shows the rest of the country experienced slightly below average wind speeds, including a majority of Texas, the Midwest, and the East.

Winds generally up in North America and down in Europe A renewable energy information service released wind performance maps for the third quarter of 2010 covering both Europe and North America. It is the first such map 3TIER has produced for Europe after strong interest in its analysis in North America. The maps reveal that…

Recent maps indicate an above average wind-power production is likely in the first quarter of 2011 across much of the continental U.S. due to a strong La Niña. In addition to foreshadowing a boon for wind power operators, these Seattle-based 3TIER’s analysis demonstrates that the long-term climactic variability of wind power can be anticipated and factored…

A company that provides energy assessments now offers data to estimate wind-energy production.

A wind-support firm says it has released a global solar map and dataset to complete its goal of identifying and mapping the world’s wind and solar resources using a globally consistent method. 3TIER, Seattle, says it has completed its effort to remap the world which began in March 2008 to address the biggest barrier to…