Periodic Reporting for period 3 - WindSider (Commercialization of a breakthrough wind resource assessment technology for automated planning of bankable wind farms)
Período documentado: 2022-07-01 hasta 2022-12-31
Wind energy represents a promising renewable power source and is an essential pillar of the EU’s Energy Union vision. The emerging sector is attracting huge investments and opening new opportunities for business and employment. However, procedures for prospection and wind energy project development remain slow. The identification of the ideal site is difficult while estimates and evaluation of bankability are time-consuming. The WindSider project will provide an automated and cost-effective solution to generate reliable wind resource data and analytics to accelerate decision-making and lower risk of new wind farm projects.
During this period, the project partners have been working on the development of a first Minimum Viable Product (MVP) application based on inputs collected from our user group members at the beginning of the project. The MVP has been delivered and tested by our beta testers during the last quarter of 2020. The project roadmap has been updated at the end of this period based on the feedback and inputs from our users collected by 3E during the testing phase.
In the meantime, the consortium has been working on the development of key backend components to deliver cutting-edge applications to our users in the WindSider platform during the second period.
In the meantime, the consortium has been working on the development of key backend components to deliver cutting-edge applications to our users in the WindSider platform during the second period.
WindSider addresses the need for an automated and affordable solution for generating accurate and bankable wind resource maps, wind power plant designs and long-term yield assessment studies. WindSider outperforms the classical semi-automated process in terms of processing time and cost, while still ensuring bankable precision. The ambition of WindSider is to become the new breakthrough Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for automated, low-cost & accurate wind resource assessment for planning bankable wind farms.
By commercializing WindSider, the project will impact to global agenda of mitigating global warming below 2° C with these measurable objectives:
✓ Improve accuracy: 3x error reduction with 3E wind model-chain, extensively validated with DTU validation framework;
✓ Reduce the effort of bankable yield assessment of wind farms by 80% during the prospecting and development stages of new projects enabling smaller actors to perform complex wind resource analysis;
✓ WindSider aims to reduce by 40% overall new wind farm development time translating directly to increase in wind power installations and wind power the contribution to the energy mix;
✓ WindSider aims to accelerate wind power generation to the ‘high scenario,’ (link to WindEurope) - 23% more capacity than in the ‘central scenario’ and 2.5 times more capacity than currently installed by 2030;
✓ Achieve 35% EU renewable energy targets with 397 GW of wind energy capacity installed in the EU by 2030, 298.5 GW onshore and 99 GW offshore – based on the high scenario forecast;
✓ Contribute to reduction of CO2 emissions by 485 Mega tonnes (estimation based on high scenario);
✓ Provide global coverage, so that new wind farm sites can be built everywhere around the world;
✓ WindSider will provide the highest-resolution worldwide wind resource (30 m) and land cover (10 m);
✓ WindSider will create 11.3 FTEs for the 3-year duration of the project and an estimated 35 FTEs by 2026;
✓ Contribute to downstream employment in-line with the high scenario growth: 716,000 jobs in EU by 2030;
✓ By project completion WindSider targets to reach €216,000 in revenues from the pilots during the project, partially paying back the EU investment, and by 2026 capture 10% of market share;
By commercializing WindSider, the project will impact to global agenda of mitigating global warming below 2° C with these measurable objectives:
✓ Improve accuracy: 3x error reduction with 3E wind model-chain, extensively validated with DTU validation framework;
✓ Reduce the effort of bankable yield assessment of wind farms by 80% during the prospecting and development stages of new projects enabling smaller actors to perform complex wind resource analysis;
✓ WindSider aims to reduce by 40% overall new wind farm development time translating directly to increase in wind power installations and wind power the contribution to the energy mix;
✓ WindSider aims to accelerate wind power generation to the ‘high scenario,’ (link to WindEurope) - 23% more capacity than in the ‘central scenario’ and 2.5 times more capacity than currently installed by 2030;
✓ Achieve 35% EU renewable energy targets with 397 GW of wind energy capacity installed in the EU by 2030, 298.5 GW onshore and 99 GW offshore – based on the high scenario forecast;
✓ Contribute to reduction of CO2 emissions by 485 Mega tonnes (estimation based on high scenario);
✓ Provide global coverage, so that new wind farm sites can be built everywhere around the world;
✓ WindSider will provide the highest-resolution worldwide wind resource (30 m) and land cover (10 m);
✓ WindSider will create 11.3 FTEs for the 3-year duration of the project and an estimated 35 FTEs by 2026;
✓ Contribute to downstream employment in-line with the high scenario growth: 716,000 jobs in EU by 2030;
✓ By project completion WindSider targets to reach €216,000 in revenues from the pilots during the project, partially paying back the EU investment, and by 2026 capture 10% of market share;