| Tuesday May 11 |
| Session 1: Bill Mahoney (NCAR) – Facilitator |
| 9:00 &ndash 9:10 |
Bill Mahoney (NCAR): Welcome, Introduction, Goals
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| 9:10 &ndash 9:25 |
Bill Mahoney (NCAR): NCAR's Wind Energy R&D Activities
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| 9:25 &ndash 9:45 |
Keith Parks (Xcel Energy): Xcel Energy's Wind Energy Program
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| 9:45 &ndash 10:10 |
Melinda Marquis (ESRL): NOAA's Wind Energy R&D Activities
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| 10:10 &ndash 10:35 |
Pat Moriarty (NREL): NREL's Wind Energy R&D Activities
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| 10:35 &ndash 10:45 |
Short Break |
| 10:45 &ndash 11:10 |
Dave Johnson (NCAR): Xcel Energy Project Overview
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| 11:10 &ndash 11:35 |
Bill Myers (NCAR): Use of DICast® for Wind Energy
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| 11:35 &ndash 12:00 |
Gerry Wiener (NCAR): Wind to Energy Conversion Algorithm(s)
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| 12:00 &ndash 1:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 2: Yubao Liu (NCAR) – Facilitator |
| 1:00 &ndash 1:25 |
Yih–huei Wan (NREL): Development of wind plan power curves
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| 1:25 &ndash 1:50 |
Tom Warner (NCAR): Modeling technologies: from global to building–aware models
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| 1:50 &ndash 2:15 |
Stan Benjamin (ESRL): Modeling & data assimilation activities at NOAA
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| 2:15 &ndash 2:40 |
Yubao Liu (NCAR): WRF–RTFDDA and Ensemble–RTFDDA modeling systems for Xcel wind prediction
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| 2:20 &ndash 3:05 |
Luca Delle Monache (NCAR): Development of Kalman Filter and Analog schemes to improve NWP model forecasts
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| 3:05 &ndash 3:20 |
Break |
| 3:20 &ndash 3:45 |
Greg Roux (NCAR): Post–processing, display and bias analysis of Xcel RTFDDA model output
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| 3:45 &ndash 4:10 |
Will Cheng (NCAR): WRF–RTFDDA optimization and wind farm data assimilation
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| 4:10 &ndash 4:35 |
Yuewei Liu (NCAR): Statistical characteristics of winds at Xcel Energy wind farms: seasonal and spatial wind patterns
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| 4:35 &ndash 4:45 |
Bill Mahoney (NCAR): Wrap–up day 1 |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn for Day 1 |
| Wednesday May 12 |
| Session 3: Dave Johnson (NCAR) – Facilitator |
| 9:00 &ndash 9:25 |
Jim Wilczak (ESRL) and/or Bob Banta: NOAA sensing systems and wind characterization
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| 9:25 &ndash 9:50 |
Rod Frehlich (CU & NCAR): Use of scanning Doppler lidar for wind characterization & data assimilation
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| 9:50 &ndash 10:15 |
Julie Lundquist (CU): Impact of boundary layer stability and turbulence on power generation
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| 10:15 &ndash 10:40 |
Ned Patton (NCAR): LES modeling for wind characterization
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| 10:40 &ndash 10:55 |
Break |
| 10:55 &ndash 11:20 |
Yubao Liu (NCAR): WRF–RTFDDA–LES modeling of intra–farm wind variation and turbine level wind shear
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| 11:20 &ndash 11:45 |
Branko Kosovic (NCAR): Assessing WRF PBL schemes for wind energy applications
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| 11:45 &ndash 12:10 |
Pat Moriarity (NREL): Turbine Wake & Turbulence Modeling
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| 12:10 &ndash 1:10 |
Lunch |
| Session 4: Dave Johnson (NCAR) – Facilitator |
| 1:10 &ndash 1:35 |
Alemu Tadesse (NCAR): Wind power ramp event – case analyses
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| 1:35 &ndash 2:00 |
Jenny Sun (NCAR): Variational Doppler Radar Assimilation System (VDRAS) for ramp prediction
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| 2:00 &ndash 2:25 |
Paul Bieringer (NCAR): Lagrangian Scalar Integration (LSI) for ramp prediction
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| 2:25 &ndash 2:50 |
Matt Pocernich (NCAR): Verification methods for ramp events
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| 2:50 &ndash 3:15 |
Amanda Hering (Mines): Space–time wind speed modeling Techniques
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| 3:15 &ndash 3:30 |
Break |
| 3:30 &ndash 3:55 |
Betsy Weatherhead (CIRES–CU–NOAA): Solar energy prediction challenges and opportunities
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| 3:55 &ndash 4:20 |
Daran Rife (NCAR): Use of CFDDA for wind resource assessments
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| 4:20 &ndash 5:00 |
Bill Mahoney (NCAR): Wrap–up |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn Workshop |
