Our team compares data collected on-site with long–term weather data documented over the course of ten years or more in order to project accurate energy estimates.

Energy estimates and visual impact analyses of the land’s topography along with noise and shadow calculations, help to determine a wind farm’s layout. Detailed maps are created that appropriate the precise turbine locations needed to maximize energy production.

Meteo Reports:

A meteo report is the base for any advanced wind resource assessment analysis, which is required for most wind energy projects by turbine manufacturers and financial partners. A meteo report can be built as tower data is being collected, which allows clients to obtain snapshots of important wind data prior to obtaining a full years worth of data. Meteo reports allow our wind analysts to input met tower or remote sensing data into our sophisticated wind models to generate several key components:

• Average wind speed and direction from entire data sets
• Wind speed distribution
• Turbulence intensity
• Wind frequency and turbulence analysis
• Energy yield calculations
• Data recovery rates

Park Reports:

Park reports are an essential piece to a completed wind assessment report. The park report has tremendous flexibility as a software program, which requires trained and experienced meteorological wind analysts to verify the accuracy of each projects report outputs. National Wind Assessments has the in-house experience to create affordable park reports with accuracy and efficiency. Park reports incorporate models generated from WaSP and Meteo modules to create:

• Turbine layout scenarios
• Energy production analysis
• Power curve analysis
• Wind resource maps

Zones of Visual Influence:

Using our sophisticated wind modeling software, a realistic, 3D visualization of a wind farm is created before it is installed. A digital height contour map with imported landscape elements from GIS systems, such as buildings, forests, lakes, etc, identifies exclusion areas or areas that impede upon wind turbine energy production. Animation of this calculation model renders a complete sequence of turbine blade rotation in relation to landscape elements, rendering the zones of visual influence. Adjustments are easily made in turbine siting to ensure landscape elements do not obstruct energy production.