Services » Wind Energy » Wind Resource Assessment Wind energy is becoming a vital part of our electric power grid as a sustainable resource. The ability to accurately be able to predict the amount of energy available is necessary for the development of potential wind farm sites. A wind resource assessment is the main objective to quantify the variability of the wind resource over the terrain of interest. Validating the particular site is done by the monitoring of wind speed (WS), wind direction (WD) and air temperature. WS will be measured at multiple (3) heights to determine a site’s wind shear characteristics, conducting turbine performance simulations at several turbine hub heights, and for back up. WD will be also monitored on all the monitoring levels to define prevailing wind direction(s). Air temperature is an important descriptor of a wind farm’s operating environment. It is also used to calculate air density for estimating the wind power density. The increased development of today’s technology will be capable of economically producing wind energy from pre-qualified wind farm sites. Through the development of forecasting tools potential for wind resources can be measured at any particular site.

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