of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has launched an 18-month effort to collect extensive weather, ocean, and wildlife data near operating offshore wind farms and lease areas off the coast of the northeastern United States.
This initiative is Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP3)aims to collect high-quality data to improve the design and operation of offshore wind turbines and wind farms. Accurate forecasting is essential to maximizing wind power output.
“The main goal of WFIP3 is to characterize the wind energy environment and determine what processes influence wind speed at hub height,” he said. Dave Turner, NOAA Renewable Energy Atmospheric Science Program Manager. “We hope to use these insights to improve NOAA’s operational weather forecasting models, which are often the basis for the energy community’s day-to-day management of wind farms. It acts as a prediction.”
Over the past three months, researchers have Remote sensing equipment, marine buoys, towers Located in various locations off the coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, the company includes Vineyard Wind, Block Island Wind Farm, South Fork Wind Farm, and seven other lease areas. These instruments will collect real-time data on a variety of weather-related variables over the next 18 months.
WFIP3 platform is also used for monitoring Wildlife such as whales, birds, and bats. Wildlife data collected along with weather and ocean data will improve understanding of migration patterns and provide insight into the potential impacts of offshore wind construction on local wildlife.
WFIP3 is funded by DOE and NOAA; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, we work with more than 15 partners, including national laboratories, universities, industry, and local government collaborations. Wildlife monitoring is a Duke University project with funding from the DOE and the Office of Ocean Energy Management.
Once the data collection campaign is complete, the monitoring platform and equipment will be removed from the sea, and the data and results of the study will be made publicly available and used to improve the accuracy of the survey. weather forecast For the community.
