Tuesday, September 12

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Open

	Wednesday, September 13

7:30 am - 8:30 am
Registration Open & Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Welcome & Acknowledgement of Sponsors
Dan Chase, Financial Liaison, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

8:45 am - 9:20 am
Overview: The Role of Resource Assessment in Project Siting,
Planning & Financing
Bruce Bailey, AWS Truewind LLC

9:20 am - 9:50 am
Understanding the Wind: The Causes of Wind and Its Variability

Jim McCaa, Research Meteorologist, 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group

• Global Wind Patterns
• The Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• Mean Wind Speed and Turbulence

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9:50 am - 10:20 am
Break
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10:20 am - 11:00 am
Measurement – Part 1: Information You Need to Know

Jim Salmon, Manager, Zephyr North Ltd.

• Planning
• Principal Measurement Parameters
• Siting

11:00 am - 11:45 am
Measurement – Part 2: How to Collect It

Scott McDonald, Developer, PPM Atlantic Renewable

• Instrumentation
• Deployment
• The role of specialty sensors

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12:00 am - 1:30 pm
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Translating Data into Results: Analysis & Interpretation of Data

Andy Oliver, Renewable Energy Systems

• Traceability and Consistency of Measurements
• Validating Data Quality
• Data Summaries and Reports
• Predicting the Long-Term Wind Regime from Short-Term Measurements
• Extrapolating Wind Speeds to Hub Height
• Establishing Accuracy and Uncertainties of Measurement & Analysis Results

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
The Role of Wind Flow Modeling & Mapping

Michael Brower, Principal, AWS Truewind

• Approaches & Applications: Macro- and micro-scale
• Synergies With Measurements: Inputs and Validation
• Influences of Variations in Terrain, Surface Roughness and Atmospheric Stability
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Numerical Simulation
• Importance of Validation
• Quantifying Uncertainty

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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Break
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3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Matching Wind Turbines to the Resource: Turbine Design & Warranty Parameters

• Wind Turbine Classifications
• Environmental Design Criteria and Operating Specifications
• Power Curves, Thrust Coefficients, and Site-Specific Adjustments
• Meteorological Factors Influencing Production and Longevity (Turbulence, Extremes, Icing, Lightning, etc.)
• Cost-Benefits of Taller Towers and Larger Rotors

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Turbine Array Design & Energy Production Prediction

Francis Pelletier, Section Head, Engineering, Helimax

• Resource Factors on Array Layouts
• Determining Appropriate Turbine Spacing: What are the Tradeoffs?
• Translating Resource Information Into Energy Predictions
• Meteorological Inputs for Turbine Control Algorithms
• Software Tools: Inputs and Outputs
• Wake Losses & Other Loss Factors
• Production Prediction Uncertainties

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Operational Assessments

Mike Bourns, Managing Director, Operations, Vision Quest, TransAlta's Wind Business

• Benefits
• Assessment Methodologies
• Importance of Planning Ahead
• Anemometry for Resource Assessment and Turbine Testing: Apples to Apples?

5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Wrap-Up Session
Marc LeBlanc, Garrad Hassan Canada Inc.

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Immediately Following Sessions (for 1 hour):
Networking Reception
Sponsored by NRG Systems
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	Thursday, September 14

8:00 am - 8:30 am
Registration Open

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Daily Overview
Bruce Bailey, AWS Truewind LLC

8:45 am - 9:30 am
Reducing Energy Assessment Uncertainty

Rob Istchenko, Phoenix Engineering Inc.

• The Sources and Magnitudes of Uncertainty, and How to Combine Them
• Ways to Quantify and Express Uncertainty
• The Role Uncertainty Plays in Future Decisions
• How to Control and Reduce Uncertainty

9:30 am - 10:15 am
Financing Considerations

Dave Jesty, Assistant Vice President- Project Finance, Manulife Financial Corporation

• Role of Resource Certainty in Financing
• Impacts of Uncertainty on Financing Terms and Project Economics
• Ingredients of a Due Diligence Review
• Track Record of Project Performance vs. Prediction

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10:15 am - 10:45 am
Break
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10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Resource Issues During Commercial Operation

Chris Henderson, Project Engineer, Global Energy Concepts

• Power Curve Validation
• Site Calibration Procedures and On-Site Met Measurements
• Project Underperformance Experience

Patrick Caramante, Vice President, Garrad Hassan America Inc.

• Ongoing Performance Monitoring
• Operations & Maintenance
• Production Scheduling (Forecasting)

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12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Panel Discussion: Challenges in Resource Assessment and How to Address Them

Moderator: Robert Hornung, President, Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA)

Panelists:

Dennis Elliott, Principal Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Rolf Miller, Scientist, WindLogics Inc.
John Obermeier, OTECH Engineering

• Existing Standards and Guidelines: Are They Adequate?
• Advances in Measurement and Modeling Technologies
• Priorities for Improving Wind Resource and Energy Assessments

2:45pm - 3:15 pm
Closing Session
Bruce Bailey, AWS Truewind LLC
Marc LeBlanc, Garrad Hassan Canada Inc.

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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Break
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3:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Bonus Clinics: Hands-on Experience with Actual Equipment (Clinics will occur simultaneously; you will need to choose one)

• Sodar and Lidar Clinic
  Organized by: Kathy Moore, Integrated Environmental Data, LLC

  This Sodar and Lidar Clinic will first present background information on sodar and lidar, including theory and practice as they apply to wind resource assessment. Participants will then observe a sodar in operation and perform some calibration and test procedures. These procedures will demonstrate in detail how the sodar works, including operational factors that affect data quality.

• Met Mast Installation Clinic
  Organized by: Barton Merle-Smith, NRG Systems, Inc.
  
  This Met Mast Installation Clinic is designed to give those new to the wind industry, as well as seasoned professionals, a thorough overview of what details need to be considered when sourcing, purchasing, installing and commissioning a meteorological tower system for wind resource measurement.

  The clinic will cover defining constraints and give evaluation criteria for all the important components that comprise a complete system. We will discuss tower choices, sensors and mounting booms, data loggers, anchoring systems and much more.

  The clinic will start indoors and then, weather permitting, move outdoors for a tower raising demonstration by industry professionals that will illustrate the information learned in class.
  

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