State-of-the-Art in wind power meteorology is facing several research challenges that need to be overcome in order to decrease the
uncertainty of wind energy production and wind conditions to less than 10%:
A main objective of the
NEWA project is to fundamentally change the state-of-the-art during the course of the project by
developing and introducing a new methodology for the assessment of wind conditions. The development
will be based on dedicated large scale wind measurement campaigns, which focus on situations important
for wind power utilization. The methodology to be developed will be validated by local measurements, and
include detailed turbulence models; considering extreme winds, extreme shears, high wind variability,
among other extremes. The development of such a highly accurate methodology represents the main
challenge in the new Wind Atlas research project. The measurement campaigns which will form the basis
for the development of the new methodology will for the first time make full use of new measurement
techniques like the windscanner lidar system.