Forecast

Vortex Wind & Site products have been designed to help you at each stage of the wind farm development process. Vortex regional wind MAPs will be useful at the prospecting stage; before measuring, our 10-minute time series LES orientates you where to place a met mast; while measuring, a WRG file helps you designing your wind farm and selecting your turbines; and once measurements are available, a Vortex long-term time series will be necessary to extrapolate them.

If the wind farm development occurs in a specific area, where extreme winds are frequent, Vortex EXTREMES might be helpful.

Sirocco Energy is a Vortex spin-off dedicated to providing short-term generation forecasts for wind and solar assets. It uses a combination of up to 36 different algorithms in an attempt to deliver the best forecast current technology can provide.

Sirocco’s forecasting model is based on a 3rd generation forecast approach: while pioneer prediction schemes were outperformed by ones based on statistical training only, Sirocco’s approach takes the best of the two worlds introducing a new combined scheme that has demonstrated to improve forecast quality; a “Statistical – Downscaling Model”.

Seasonal forecasts for wind speed anomaly over periods up to 6 months (up to 1 year coming soon) using Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) seasonal forecast datasets. As the European Center for Medium Weather Forecast explains in the C3S documentation, seasonal forecasts will tell us how likely it is that the coming season will be windier than ‘usual’ for that time of year.

We provide you not only with the model outputs for the next month but also with a Vortex seasonal ensemble adjusted to your site.

Climate Scale offers an easy-to-access, current climate variability and future climate projections, building on the consolidated experience of Vortex technology to physically downscale climate data to the resolution for local applications.

Building on Vortex track record quantifying the wind resource potential, evaluate how climate change will affect the wind resource for your region and identify new opportunities for wind generation. Identify changes in extreme events and how these may affect wind infrastructure and energy grids.