The wind in its element –
The importance of meteorological aspects
Jan Coelingh (NUON)
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Windkracht 2014 – 22-23 January Rotterdam
Introduction
Perspective NUON/Vattenfall
• Developing (offshore) wind projects
• Selecting wind turbines
• Taking investment decisions
• Constructing wind farms
• Doing Operation & Maintenance
• Trading on the electricity market
© Vattenfall AB
Windkracht 2014 – 22-23 January Rotterdam
The importance of meteorological aspects
• Weather window
• Turbulence
Wind
modelling
• Shear
• Extremes
Wind
Resource
• Mean wind speed
• Frequency
distribution
Wind
measurements
• Wind rose
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Windkracht 2014 – 22-23 January Rotterdam
Design
conditions
• Waves system
Forecasting
• Decision system
Wake
effects
• Velocity
deficit +
Wind turbine
• Thrust
coefficient
wind interaction
• Model improvement
Construction
/O&M
Optimisation
• LiDAR
Wind farm control
• Wind turbine
interaction
system
• Control system
Your session
Far offshore
atm. conditions
Wind
Resource
Floating LiDAR
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Windkracht 2014 – 22-23 January Rotterdam
Site
conditions
Meteo Dashboard
Wake
effects
Exp. Analysis of
wind turbine wakes
Construction
/O&M
Optimisation
Wind farm control
Your speakers
Jan-Joost Schouten
Deltares
Maarten Holtslag
TU Delft
Wind
Resource
Floris Heijckmann
Eneco
© Vattenfall AB
Windkracht 2014 – 22-23 January Rotterdam
Site
conditions
Wake
effects
Lorenzo Lignarolo
TU Delft
Construction
/O&M
Optimisation
Peter Eecen
ECN