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Renewable energy consultants, AWS Truepower, have released their Wind Trends Bulletin for the month of March. Monthly wind performance maps showed deviations in the wind resource from average March conditions in every region of the world. The monthly Wind Trends Bulletin is based on a custom combination of three re-analysis datasets: ERA-Interim, MERRA, and CFSR. The…

AWS Truepower’s Wind Trends Bulletin is a report that evaluates deviations in global wind conditions from the historical norm on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. The purpose is to provide wind-plant owners, investors, and operators with a high-level analysis of wind resource performance influenced by climatic fluctuations. The maps contained in the report were derived…

The monthly Wind Trends Bulletin is based on a custom combination of three reanalysis datasets: ERA-Interim, MERRA, and CFSR.

AWS Truepower’s monthly wind performance maps are released shortly after the end of each month. This new service offers an enhanced look at the company’s Wind Trends, which provide a quarterly snapshot of wind performance. The new monthly performance maps show deviations in the wind resource from average conditions in every region of the world…

AWS Truepower’s quarterly Wind Trends Bulletin for Q2 2015 is now available. The report provides wind-plant owners, investors, and operators with a high-level analysis of wind resource performance influenced by climatic fluctuations. This aids in identifying potential issues with wind plant underperformance. Some of the highlights of the Q2 2015 Bulletin include the following wind trends……

AWS Truepower, an international wind and solar energy consulting and engineering company, has responded to the growing success of its due diligence services by expanding its team with several well-known industry veterans and skilled specialists. Starting August 24, Gill Howard Larsen assumed leadership of the group as Director of Due Diligence. Gill has long experience as…

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and AWS Truepower recently released maps that illustrate the potential for wind-energy development using more advanced wind turbine technologies. Wind resource maps are one tool wind industry professionals use in the early stages of wind project planning to understand the potential for wind development in a region. Because stronger…

The quarterly Wind Trends Bulletin provides wind plant owners, investors and operators with a high-level analysis of wind resource performance influenced by climatic fluctuations. This aids in identifying potential issues with wind plant under-performance. The Wind Trends Bulletin for Q1 2015 has recently been released, and its findings are presented here. Download the full report for more…

AWS Truepower’s Wind Trends Bulletin Annual Review provides wind plant owners, investors, and operators with a high-level analysis of wind resource performance influenced by climatic fluctuations. This aids in identifying potential issues with wind plant under-performance. Highlights of the 2014 Annual Bulletin include the following findings: winds were normal to above normal, with some exceptions,…

The quarterly Wind Trends Bulletin, from AWS Truepower, provides wind plant owners, investors and operators with a high-level analysis of wind resource performance influenced by climatic fluctuations. This aids in identifying potential issues with wind plant under-performance. Highlights of Q4 2014 Bulletin include: Winds were above normal across the northern and western United States, much…

  Stephanie Van Kempen, Senior Modeling Specialist, AWS Truepower Nick Robinson, Director of openWind, AWS Truepower, www.awstruepower.com OpenWind Enterprise is wind-project design and optimization software for professional wind developers. Comprehensive features in the software let users conduct wind-flow modeling, estimate energy yields, and calculate loss and uncertainty. Recent additions to the software, Time-Series Energy Capture, and refinements to the…

AWS Truepower, LLC, a renewable energy consulting and information service, has released its quarterly analytical Wind Trends Bulletins for Europe, India, and North America. Each report independently reviews wind resource performance based on AWS Truepower’s long-term simulated wind resource data set. Third quarter key findings indicate that wind speeds varied throughout these regions. Europe: Most…

During the second quarter of 2012, mean wind speeds across much of North America deviated substantially from the long term (1997 to 2011) average. In much of the Western United States and Canada, wind speeds were 5% to 15% higher than average, while across Nunavut, Southern Alaska, and portions of the Southern and Eastern United…

Finding a suitable wind project site is just the first step toward developing a profitable wind power plant. Two tasks that follow closely include assessing the wind on the land and then laying out a high production, low-cost wind plant with turbines, roads, electrical cabling, and other infrastructure. Methods have improved considerably over the years.…

AWS Truepower, LLC and AIRES Renewables recently announced a strategic partnership to provide renewable energy consulting services to Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. Drawing from years of combined expertise and experience, developers, investors, government agencies, and utilities will benefit from a wide‐ranging set of solutions. Part of the offering includes proven and reliable renewable resource modeling…

The Department of Energy’s Wind Program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a wind resource map for the state of Washington. The resource map shows the predicted mean annual wind speeds at 80-m height. Presented at a spatial resolution of about 2 km (interpolated to a finer scale for display). Areas with…

A renewable energy consulting firm has provided state-of the-art, 80m up wind resource data for the Landscape Assessment Tool (LAT), an online map designed by the American Wind Wildlife Institute (AWWI) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The map provides information about the environmental, wildlife, and wind resource characteristics of a geographic area to help with…

ABB, AWS Truepower, Duke Energy, NREL, University of Pittsburgh have created a provisional partnership to perform studies that identify sites for high offshore wind energy potential and grid interconnection along all U.S. coastal regions. The DOE says it is providing funding for a team of leading energy organizations to perform a broad study that will…

A renewable-energy consulting and information company says it offers Operational Wind Plant Performance Reporting Services. The service, from AWS Truepower, leverages the in-house knowledge and expertise of its staff as well as its state-of-the-art software application SHARP (System Health Analysis Reporting Program), which works well with industry standard SCADA data, helping make comprehensive and efficient…