© TIER, Inc. 3TIER a renewable energy information services company Bart Nijssen Chief Information Officer AMS Summer Community Meeting August
© TIER, Inc. Our industry Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels, 2007 Weather-driven renewable energy generation
© TIER, Inc. Rapid growth – 20% wind scenario US
© TIER, Inc. Rapid growth – BPA Balancing Area Source: BPA Factsheet, Mar 2009
© TIER, Inc. Intermittent Weather-Driven Renewables
© TIER, Inc. Variable Weather-Driven Renewables
© TIER, Inc. 3TIER - renewable energy information services Prospecting and Pre-feasibility Feasibility and Due Diligence Design and Construction Operations
© TIER, Inc. 3TIER People Computers Scalable delivery platforms Market penetration examples: Operational wind energy forecasts for > 10,000 MW of installed capacity 30 thousand registered users of FirstLook® (firstlook.3tier.com)
© TIER, Inc. Observational data needs Historic records ›Establish climatology ›Calibrate and train models ›Analog forecasts Real-time ›Used directly in forecast generation
© TIER, Inc. 3TIER Hour Ahead Forecast System
© TIER, Inc. Impact of off-site observations Days Cumulative Advantage (MWh) Advantage Over Hourly Persistence
© TIER, Inc. Requirements Timeliness ›Is becoming even more important as people become more interested in short-term forecasts (e.g. next 30 minutes at 5 minute increments) Standardized metadata Quality assurance / quality control
© TIER, Inc. Closing remarks 3TIER does not collect the observations directly -> agnostic to where it comes from Meteorological observations cover only part of the data needs required for power forecasting (power data, turbine availability, etc) Data owners are generally very protective of their own data
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