Contents

The fundamentals of wind resource and energy yield assessments, employing the WAsP software. The course provides a systematic and complete introduction to the WAsP software and the wind atlas methodology. At the end of the course, the student will know how to avoid the most common pitfalls in wind resource and energy yield assessments, and will have a basic understanding of the biases and uncertainties of the wind atlas methodology and the software. The course focuses on wind resource and energy yield assessments using the WAsP software:

wind farm annual production and wind farm efficiency

wind resource mapping and micro-siting of wind turbines

wind climate estimation and wind atlas generation

In addition, WAsP tools for wind data analysis, map digitisation and editing, as well as power- and thrust-curve editing are introduced.

Course load: 10 modules to complete, about 3 hours/module.