To help companies manage the impacts of low wind, the Met Office has launched a new service providing 30 years of climatology data detailing hourly wind speeds for customer defined sites and heights. The Site Wind Index is updated monthly and annually.
As wind energy capacity in the UK and across Europe continues to grow, volatility in wind resource can have a significant impact on industry and the financial performance of individual companies. The Site Wind Index is designed to provide a consistent dataset for creating and settling low wind insurance contracts at any onshore and offshore location in the UK and across Europe.
“Site Wind Index provides long-term consistency for the duration of contracts, so customers can feel completely confident in the consistency of the data they will be provided,” explains Alasdair Skea, renewables applications team manager.
Skea will be discussing wind data and modelling capabilities at the European meeting for the Weather Risk Management Association on 19th September. He will speak as part of a panel of renewables experts.
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