TECHNOLOGY: RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

摘要

For all stages of offshore wind development - preconstruction, site assessment, and follow-on - meteorological masts holding instrumentation (met masts) are essential tools for assessing the wind resource in a given location. But 'given' is a key word here: once a met mast is installed, the measurable area is fixed, and thus limited. Matt Filipelli, lead engineer with AWS Truepower, says: The measurement side of met ocean characterisation is only one part of three important components: you also have to translate point measurement spatially (with more measurements or a model to extrapolate out in space) and in time.