WindOptimizerTM is an internet-accessible business intelligence tool that uses WindTracer® data to provide highly-accurate short term wind forecasts along with wind farm visualization and economic assessments of trading, dispatch and asset management decisions.
By using WindOptimizer, various projects have demonstrated precise prediction of wind up-ramps and down-ramps greater than 30 minutes prior to arrival at the turbine locations. The dense wind sampling capability and long range of the WindTracer enables the meteorologist to watch wind ramps approach in real-time. This unmatched, critical capability provides energy traders, wind energy dispatchers and farm asset managers explicit knowledge from which they can make informed economic decisions. Accurate and timely short-term forecasting substantially lowers the waste associated with poor decisions by more than $100M over the life of a wind farm.
