There is increasing pressure from wind project financiers to reduce the uncertainty in wind-resource data. One company says it hears more often that developers are gathering wind data at elevations closer to a turbine’s hub height, to get projects financed. The uncertainty come in data extrapolated up from 60-m towers, while most turbine hub heights…
A wind study the size of Arkansas
Here’s some serious state marketing: Arkansas officials plan on attracting new wind-farm developers to the state by launching a tall-tower wind study. WindPole Ventures and AWS Truepower LLC will build a wind resource monitoring network for the state. The data collected will provide developers with a better understanding of the wind resources available and encourage…
Building a Kansas sized wind-data network
Clean Line Energy Partners LLC of Houston, Texas and WindPole Ventures in Arlington, Mass. Say they’ll build a wind-resource-monitoring network in southwestern Kansas to support the planned Grain Belt Express Clean Line transmission project, which will deliver thousands of MW of low cost, renewable energy from Kansas to Southeastern Missouri and points farther east. Clean…
Wind-data company adds 1,536 towers to wind resource portfolio
WindPole Ventures says it has added 1,536, 80+m towers to its wind resource assessment portfolio. The towers are located from Maine to Washington state with a concentration of 720 in the Midwest ISO load-balancing area. This expansion results in over 7,000 Tier 1 towers from which the company can start the flow of bankable data…
12 month study to compare data quality, sensor reliability in cold climates
Windpole Ventures LLC of Arlington, Mass. has teamed with Garrad Hassan Americas to conduct a twelve month comparative study of ultrasonic and cup anemometers. The test will take place at locations in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana, where winter-anemometer icing can be severe. Both sensors will be unheated during the test. Boom configuration will be standardized…