October 27, 2011, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Wind Forces successfully tested a data output format compatible with a popular wind analysis software package called Windographer.  With this latest important product development effort, users of Windographer can now readily obtain our highly accurate wind information and start analyzing prospective wind farm sites for viability/profitability in a matter of weeks–not months to years.  Additionally, more advanced analysis, for example, for the purposes of wind turbine micrositing, can also be accomplished based on our wind information as Windograhper allows the user to convert our data format to other native formats (e.g., MeteoDyn, WindSim, etc.).  Contact us for more details about how you can take advantage of this newest benefit Wind Forces is offering and to obtain a sample Wind Forces wind information output file.

Additional benefits such as long period (10+ years) Wind Forces time series wind information, to be used for long-term wind energy projections without having to resort to the usual statistical manipulations, are being evaulated within Windographer by Tom Lambert of Windographer and James Stalker of Wind Forces.  Stay tuned for further details on the latter development efforts.

September 18, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Wind Forces, a high-tech company that provides wind energy assessment services to its customers worldwide, participated in a 2-day workshop on wind resource assessment.  This event was sponsored by the American Wind Energy Association.

Wind Forces’ founder and chief technology developer, Dr. James Stalker, attended many of the presentations at the workshop and made the observation and pointed to the presenters and the audience that a critical piece of the puzzle was missing.  According to Dr. Stalker, wind measurements made at one or two locations, followed by a whole lot of horizontal, vertical, and temporal extrapolations will not resolve the bias problem the industry has been struggling to address.  Dr. Stalker believes that this type of bias is due to the fact that such extrapolations do not consider any physically valid and consistent basis and are usually based on ad hoc assumptions.  He believes that the basis for these extrapolations lies in the dynamic atmospheric processes (“wind forces”).

Dr. Stalker discussed the above issue in more detail in his recent article.  You can find this article at  www.wind-energy-assessment.com/news/.

Through more articles and technical presentations, Dr. James Stalker will be looking forward to elaborating on this critical aspect of wind energy assessment until the fundamental limitations of current approaches are fully recognized by the global wind energy community.