Anemos Wind Power Predictions

Anemos group successful at the European Wind Energy Conference EWEA 2011

The Anemos group successfully presented itself at the European wind energy conference EWEA 2011 (formerly EWEC). In all, five contributions were selected by a jury of experts where the employees of the Anemos group participated as authors or co-authors.

With its article “Anemos.Rulez: Extreme and Ramp Event Alarming to Support Stability of Energy Grids”, Anemos partner Overspeed took up a current topic in the area of wind power predictions which allows extreme events such as storm fronts and shutting down of wind farms to be forecasted.

Further publications deal with the turning big EU-funded research projects into commercial successes.

• Anemos.Rulez: Extreme and Ramp Event Forecasting and Alarming to Support Stability of Energy Grids (paper)
• The Commercial Anemos Activities & Lessons learned from a successful spin-off from EU funded research (paper)
• Towards Improved Wind Power Forecasting Technology With Focus on Extremes. The Safewind Project (abstract)
• Optimal Management of Wind Generation in Power Systems & Markets - The Anemos.Plus Project (abstract)
• Reserve and Congestion Management Using Wind Power Probabilistic Forecasting: A Real Case-Study (abstract)

Reduced need of balancing energy through optimal predictions

Together with the Portugese grid operator REN and the INESC research institute, Overspeed organized the wind power prediction workshop for Portugal. More than 70 participants consisting of energy providers, wind park operators, meteorological service providers and research institutes convened to inform themselves on the latest results from the Anemos.plus research project.

Overspeed put its optimized wind power prediction for Portugal to practice with the Anemos (WPP) system. These predictions and an advanced modelling of the Portugese power grid, allowed INESC the success of reducing the need for balancing energy by a third.

Detailed information at anemos-plus.eu.