Project overview:

A Validated National Offshore Wind Resource Dataset with Uncertainty Quantification

Awardee:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Start Date:

Q3, 2020

Technical Challenge Area:

Wind Resource and Site Characterization

Completion Date:

Q3, 2023

Synopsis:

In this project, NREL and its partners are committed to ensuring that the latest advancements in the atmospheric modeling community are provided to a wide range of stakeholders by creating the next-generation product for wind resource assessment across all United States offshore regions.

Target Outcomes:

Create and disseminate a 20-year atlas of the offshore wind resource for all US offshore waters, which will be available at no cost to the public.

Include modeling uncertainty information in the proposed dataset, including model sensitivity to the sea surface temperature product used to run the numerical simulations.

Publish a 1-year post-construction dataset, the longest dataset to date to assess the impacts of wind turbine and wind plant wakes in the offshore environment and its uncertainty quantification in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Design efforts to implement WRF capabilities to output turbulence intensity, an essential parameter for wake modeling.