Offshore projects
A new world of siting and planning issues arise as wind energy ventures offshore. The stronger and steadier winds blowing offshore and the avoidance of land use conflicts offer new yet chalenging development oportunities. The team of Meteosim TrueWind engineers, meteorologists and specialized consultants can chart the right course to asses the major aspects of offshore project planning issues. Meteosim TrueWind is the leading consultancy on offshore wind development in North America, but our reach is international. We provide a variety of assessment, mesurement and outreach services in support of projects located in fresh or salt water.
Offshore Meteorological Mast.
EXPERIENCE:
Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.
Long Island Power Authority project off of Long Island.
New Jersey offshore assessment for the Atlantic Renewable Energy Corporation and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
Slupsk Shoals project in Poland
Modeling of offshore wind conditions for countries on five continents
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario assessments.
Topical areas of expertise in offshore projects include:
- Wind Resource Assessment - Wind Plant Layout.
- Subsurface geology and bathymetry.
- Oceanography.
- Meteorology.
- Competing water uses such as vessel traffic and fishing.
- Undersea obstructions, pipelines and power/communications cables.
- Marine mammals, essential fish habitats and birds.
- Transmition routing and landfall assessment.
- Governmental jurisdictions and permitting.
- Hazards to aviation.
- Visual impact.
- Availability of deep water ports and construction vessels/equipment.
- Wind plant performance prediction
- Economics.
- Wave modeling.
The management of the large number of databases is handled by our Geographical Information Systems (GIS) department. GIS is a system of hardware and software that manages, analyses and displays geographical reference data. The plotting and mapping of multiple data layers greatly facilitates information management and communications and quickly targets the most feasible sites.
The scope of assessment projects range from desktop reviews and fatal flaw analyses to field surveys. We applu best practices to offshore meteorological campaigns and recommend innovative technology and modeling approeaches to improve cerainly while minimizing measurement costs. Meteosim Truewind also participates in vital stake holder outreach activities. And after a wind plant is commissioned, Meteosim TrueWind provides monitoring services as well as short-term forecasts of wind plant power output and sea state conditions.
