International Wind Forecast Techniques and Methodologies

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Presentations given at the International Wind Forecast Techniques and Methodologies
workshop on July 24 -25, 2008 are available in pdf form below.

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July 24, 2008

• Utilities & Balancing Authorities Managing Large Scale Wind
  • Integration of Large Scale Wind in the Grid – the Spanish Experience
    • Javier Revuelta Alonso, Managing Director RED ELECTRICA Internacional

  • Wind in the BPA Balancing Authority Area and the Need for Forecasts
    • Steve Barton PE, Power Operations Bart McManus, Transmission Operations Bonneville Power Administration

  • California ISO – Supporting the Integration of Renewables
    • Jim Blatchford, Sr. Policy Issues Rep Stakeholder & Industry Affairs California Independent System Operator

• Leading Wind Forecasting Techniques and Methodologies – USA/Europe
  • Tools for Integrating Large Scale Wind Power
    • Henrik Madsen Ph.D
      Torben Skov Nielsen Ph.D
      Pierre Pinson Ph.D
      ENFOR
  • New Modeling Techniques – From Wind Assessment and Forecasting to Wind Resource Management
    • Robert Kelly, President Precision Wind

  • Forecasting for Utility Scale Wind Farms – The Power Model Challenge
    • Greg Collier Ph.D
    • Jeremy Parkes Ph.D
    • Garrad Hassan America
    • Garrad Hassan & Partners Ltd.

  • Approach and Experience in Providing Wind Power Production Forecasting Services to Utilities and Balancing Authorities in North America
    • John Zack Ph.D AWS TrueWind

  • Operational Wind Power Forecasting in Europe, North America and Australia
    • Matthias Lange Ph.D, Energy & Meteo Systems

  • State-of-the-Art Wind Energy Forecasting
    • Cameron Potter Ph.D
    • Eric Grimit Ph.D 3Tier, Inc.

  • The Value of Wind Forecasting for the Irish Power System
    • Mark O'Malley Ph.D Professor of Electrical Engineering University College

  • Prediction of Wind Farm Power and Ramp Rates: Data-Mining Approach
    • Andrew Kusiak Ph.D The University of Iowa

• Leading Research in Wind Forecasting
  • Neural Networks for Wind Energy Forecasting
    • Mohamed El-Sharkawi, Ph.D Computational Intelligence Laboratory University of Washington

  • ANEMOS – Leading European Union Wind Research
    • Georges Kariniotakis Ph.D Paris, France

  • Renewable Energy Visualization
    • Javier Revuelta Alonso, Managing Director RED ELÉCTRICA Internacional

  • Mitigating the Operation Impacts of Wind Energy Resources in the BPA Control Area
    • Yuri Markarov, Ph.D Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  • Forecasting for the Winds of Change
    • Dora Yen Nakafuji, Ph.D National Security Engineering Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory California Energy Commission