Western Wind and Solar Integration Study

Welcome

Welcome to the working web site of the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study. This internal website is used to exchange data and working documents among the Study participants. The official website for the study can be found here. Please contact Debbie at 303-384-7037 for more information or help.

 

Final WWSIS Stakeholder Meeting

Tues, Feb 9  8:30am – 5pm

Final agenda

The goal of this meeting is to present key findings and new analysis and to obtain stakeholder input so that we can finalize the draft report.

Presentations for meeting

 

Hotel Albuquerque

800 Rio Grande Blvd, NW

Albuquerque, NM 87104

For hotel reservations, please call 505-843-6300 or 1-800-237-2133 and ask for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Stakeholder Meeting block of rooms. There is a group rate of $137 available until January 18, although folks calling in early are getting lower rates than that.

Please RSVP by Feb 3 to Kelly if you would like to attend this meeting.

 

Draft report

Executive Summary

Body of report

Appendices (to be available in Feb)

We are requesting all comments on the report in writing to Kelly by COB Feb 12. If your comments are longer than one page, please email Debbie for a version of this report that can be marked up electronically.

 

To participate in meeting remotely:

Call-in: 1-800-619-8495 and give the passcode: NREL

Using internet Explorer or Safari, you can see the presentation at:

https://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join.php?i=PW1805100&p=NREL&t=c

 

 

 

Papers

Western Wind and Solar Integration Study Update Sept 2009

Wind Mesoscale Modeling Paper

Wind Mesoscale Modeling Paper for Wind Engineering Journal 

 

Presentations

SWAT Presentation 8/19/09

WestConnect presentation 4-21-09

UWIG presentation 4-1-09

WestConnect presentation 11-08

SWAT/CCPG presentation 8-20-08

WestConnect Steering Committee presentation 7-25-08

TRC 6-25-08 presentation

Wind Integration Workshop Presentation

TRC 5-14-08 presentation

SWAT 4-30-08 presentation

NMRETA 4-23-08 presentation

Wind data webinar presentation

TRC 3-12-08 Presentation

WECC Modeling Work Group presentation 2-6-08

WestConnect presentation 11-1-07

SWAT/CCPG presentation 8-22-07

DOE peer review presentation 7-12-07

Overview presentation

 

Solar data

2004-5 is on the NSRDB site. Our license for the 2006 data only covers this study, so this data is not publicly available.

To access the PV or CSP profiles from 2004-5, you can go to http://mercator.nrel.gov/wwsi and download specific sites.

 

Stakeholder Group

Stakeholder Meeting 5-23-07

Stakeholder Meeting 8-14-08

     Notes from the August 14, 2008 Stakeholder Meeting.

     Final Agenda

     Presentations

     Responses to questions and comments

Stakeholder Meeting 3-24-09

Stakeholder Meeting 7-30-09

 

Study Footprint

 

Technical Review Committee (TRC)

TRC member list

TRC Data Collection conference call 11-9-07

TRC conference call 3-12-08

TRC conference call 5-14-08

TRC conference call 6-25-08

TRC conference call 12-8-08

TRC conference call 2-25-09

TRC Conference call 11-5-09

 

Updates

6-28-08

12-18-07

 

Wind Data

Western Wind Resources Dataset

Final Report from 3TIER on Dataset Development

Google Earth file of 3Tier wind site locations (30,544 +1499 sites)

Google Earth file of same wind sites by Weibull k

Maps of selected sites and of wind power density

Spreadsheet of wind site locations for 2006 (revised 9/23/08) – includes average wind speed, average power density, elevation, capacity factor

Spreadsheet of wind site locations for 2005 (revised 9/26/08) – includes average wind speed, average power density, elevation, capacity factor

Spreadsheet of wind site locations for 2004 (revised 9/26/08) – includes average wind speed, average power density, elevation, capacity factor

Spreadsheet of wind site locations for All Years (revised 9/26/08) – includes average wind speed, average power density, elevation, capacity factor

Site selection algorithm

Site selection files (sites per state ranked by capacity factor and load correlation factor)

3Tier Validation Reports for 28 Towers

 

 

 

 


This page was last updated by D. Lew on 1/21/10.



 

 

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