GC031
Energy Meteorology 2 - Wind Resourcing and Forecasting
Session ID#: 77322
Session Description:
Increasing global population and standards of living are driving up electricity demand, which is projected to grow by more than 50% between 2018 and 2050. Wind power is projected to supply more than a third of global electricity demand in 2050. The cost of wind power continues to drop and is now approximately $0.04/kWh and is economically competitive in many regions. With ever-increasing supplies of variable generation, a paradigm shift is occurring regarding how the grid develops and is managed. This session will address improvements in wind resource assessments and forecasting.
This is one of a three-session contribution sponsored by the American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIPP), whose new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (JRSE) aims to make JRSE the home journal for the researchers with interests in resourcing, forecasting and integration issues for both solar and wind power, and energy meteorology and climatology.
Index Terms:
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Melinda Marquis, NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener: Jan P Kleissl, Univ of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Carlos F Coimbra, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Global Reanalysis and Regional Modeling Products Vary in Usefulness for Wind Power Applications – Using Wind Generation Records to Understand Biases in Reanalysis Products (503876)
Dev Millstein1, Seongeun Jeong1, Sofia Hamilton2, Mark Bolinger1 and Ryan Wiser1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
Grand Vision for Wind Energy: Overview of Results of the International Energy Agency Wind Technology Collaboration Programme Workshop (506822)
Melinda Marquis, NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States, Katherine Dykes, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark and Paul Veers, NREL, Boulder, United States
Wind Power Ramp Characteristics over Northern Mexico (517452)
Karla Pereyra-Castro, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad de México, Mexico, Ernesto dos Santos Caetano Neto, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico and Oscar Martinez-Alvarado, National Center for Atmospheric Science, Reading, United Kingdom
Improvements in wind resource assessments and forecasting across scales (Invited) (558093)
Caroline Draxl1, Dries Allaerts2, Matt Churchfield3 and Mike Optis2, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, National Wind Technology Center, Golden, CO, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, United States, (3)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
Observation-based power densities of US solar and wind plants (611151)
Lee Miller, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States and David Keith, Harvard University, Engineering and Applied Sciences and Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, United States
