Introduction
Wind project developers and investors rely on wind energy assessment consultants to predict the energy output of proposed projects. They need to be confident that the numbers reported to them are as accurate as possible. Yet ironically, the two goals of confidence and accuracy can be at direct odds with one another. Maximum confidence is achieved through a high level of comfort and familiarity with an established and unchanging methodology.
Maximum accuracy is achieved by using the best science and latest technology available in the fields of climate science, meteorology, fluid dynamics, and statistical analysis. These apparently conflicting goals can be expressed as a trade-off between “stability” of method, and “innovation” of method. However, as outlined in this briefing, Vaisala has developed and implemented a way to simultaneously achieve stability and innovation through the intelligent use of validation.
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