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;
