Month: April 2021
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Site visits and information management tools
This post complete the information of the previous article on how to plan a site visit for a renewable energy project. I will try to answer this question: what is the better tool to manage the information obtained on site? There are several very useful mobile apps that can help us finding the target locations…
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Wind assessment: uncertainties in the horizontal and vertical extrapolation
Behind every wind farm project there is a technical feasibility study, made to assess the potential for electricity generation of the selected site. At the beginning of the wind farms era wind speed and wind direction was estimated using data from existing weather stations. Due to large differences between predicted energy production and actual generated…
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How to plan a site visit for a renewable energy project
Today many resources can make the engineer life´s easier helping create a renewable energy project in any spot of the world. Powerful GIS and CAD software and an incredible amount of data available from either public or private entities make possible designs with a sufficient level of accuracy to have good cost estimations, even at…