09:00 - 10:30 Cold climate issues in resource assessment
Resource assessment
Room: Hall G2
Sites subject to cold climate not only have temperatures outside the normal limits of standard wind turbines but also atmospheric icing conditions which are frequent and may account for a significant loss in annual production. This session addresses the most recent advancements in the field of atmospheric icing effects on wind resource yield assessment. Assessing, measuring and estimating icing losses in the resource assessment phase of a project is of crucial importance for the successful business case of a wind farm in cold climates. Icing of the rotor blades can significantly reduce the energy yield of a wind farm up to 10% or more of the annual production and it also influences wind measurements by reducing availability.
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Learning objectives
- Learn state-of-the-art measurement techniques and data analysis approaches for cold climate sites and therefore decrease the uncertainty in yield assessments;
- Discover the latest findings from over 20 sites and 100 met mast years of data in cold climates from Scandinavia and Germany;
- Learn to execute more reliable pre-construction energy yield assessments in cold climate sites.
Presenter
Co-authors:
Carla Ribeiro (1) F Till Beckford (1)
(1) DNV GL, Bristol, United Kingdom
Presenter's biography
Biographies are supplied directly by presenters at WindEurope Summit 2016 and are published here uneditedCarla Ribeiro has been working in wind resource assessment for more than 11 years in a number of regions across the world. She joined Garrad Hassan (now DNV GL) 8 years ago, becoming Senior Team Leader for Scandinavia in 2012. From August 2015 she has been Head of Department for Project Development in Northern Europe at DNV GL, covering UK&I, the Nordic region and the Baltics. The department is composed of a team of 23 engineers.
She holds an Environmental Engineering degree and two Masters in Climate Physics and Renewable Energy, all of them obtained with first class honours equivalent.
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