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Broadening the options for alternative energy sources is essential for the global community to maintain robust, cost-effective, and reliable power grids. Public and private utility managers use our forecasting tools to efficiently and economically incorporate solar and wind power into their energy portfolios. The research strides we’ve made help predict solar and wind events. The power generated from these sources is now more reliable, which ultimately moves the world closer to renewable energy goals. |
FINECAST® serves a wide range of meteorological applications, such as severe-weather nowcasting, wind-power prediction, and hazardous-chemical detection, to name only a few. The true value of the model is that it can produce these analyses in mere minutes, delivering timely results to decision makers, forecasters, and utility managers. |
FastEddy®: A GPU-Accelerated Microscale Model Saving money, power and time with this LES modeling method. A viable tool for microscale operational, educational, and more comprehensive research applications. |
Improving Solar Power Forecasting The finished system will be made available to the solar power industry to lower costs and enable more solar power penetration. Significant savings to electrical utility rate payers is anticipated. |
Providing Wind Forecasts to Utility Companies This wind energy forecasting system has saved Xcel Energy ratepayers approximately $10M per year since 2009. The benefits are described in a report of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). |
Generating Automated, Timely, Accurate Forecasts Globally 10 Days Out This technology has become a core prediction capability of several commercial weather companies including The Weather Channel, WSI, Schneider Electric, and Global Weather Corporation generating 10s of millions in business revenue for these companies. |
How advanced forecasting is making it easier to integrate solar onto the grid
Article courtesy of "Utility Drive", by Herman K. TrabishSolar Power Forecasting PartnershipRapid variations in solar output caused by shifting... more |
Bringing the wind to the grid
In February 2011, the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo) did something unprecedented. It turned off several coal-fired power plants for a long... more |
