PROGRAM INFORMATION

PARK COUNTY SITE 2207 - BADGER CREEK

8/14/2008 through 11/24/2009

DATA DETAILS

This tower was one of five included in a fleet of 60m towers that were installed by E.ON Climate & Renewables for a commercial wind study in Park County. The tower was installed on August 14, 2008 and removed on November 24, 2009. The site is located on a plateau/bluff in extreme south Park County, about one mile north of the county line, about one mile south of Rye Slough, and about 15 miles west of Colorado Hwy 9. The site is on the east side of a NW/SE-oriented valley and is about 4.5 miles west of Black Mountain..

The following commissioning and decommissioning files were available from Park County:

• Badger_Creek_2207_20080724_Commission.xls

In summary, data was collected initially using using three (3) NRG #40 Anemometers, three (3) Second Wind #C3 anemometers, and two (2) NRG #200P Wind Vanes, as follows:

• Anemometers
  1. NRG #40 (S/N 68370) at 58.5 meters heading 110° on a 68" boom
  2. NRG #40 (S/N 68365) at 40 meters heading 110° on a 68" boom
  3. NRG #40 (S/N 68363) at 20 meters heading 110° on a 90" boom
  4. Second Wind #C3 (S/N 5425) at 58.5 meters heading 290° on a 68" boom
  5. Second Wind #C3 (S/N 5414) at 40 meters heading 290° on a 68" boom
  6. Second Wind #C3 (S/N 5415) at 20 meters heading 290° on a 90 " boom
• Wind Vanes
  1. NRG #200 P at 56.5 meters heading 290° on a 68" boom with the null point facing toward the tower
  2. NRG #200 P at 18.5 meters heading 290° on a 90" boom with the null point facing toward the tower

There was also an NRG 110S temperature sensor and an NRG BP-20 pressure sensor (S/N 18055260) at a height of 3 meters and voltmeter in the data logger box..

All sensors fed into an NRG Symphonie data logger. The certifications for the anemometers are as follows:

The data logger generated wind reports for each day. Using the Symphonie Data Retriever software, each day's data was complied into one large data file, using the appropriate anemometer slope and offset before and after replacement. A zipped file that contains all of the NRG data files and a text version of the aggregate data for all days are given below.

It is important to note that these are the raw files DO NOT include the offsets for the wind vanes so some compensation is required.

Experienced users may also wish to download the site file used to process the raw data with the Symphonie Data Retriever software. You can find the site file here.

Using this data, an analysis of the wind resource report was developed using Windographer 1.45. For this data an offset of +110° was applied to both wind vane data. fields. Since the data set contains data for two or more wind speed sensors at different heights above the ground, Windographer considered the wind shear relationship between different wind speed sensors to synthesize missing data for those wind speed sensors. A best fit using the power law profile was chosen to synthesize the data. Once the wind shear relation was chosen, a daily influence on the wind shear profile was considered so that in each time step where the wind speed is known at one height but not at a different height, Windographer estimated the unknown wind speed based on the best-fit wind shear profile for the appropriate hour of the day.

Using this data, an analysis of the wind resource report was developed using Windographer 1.45. For this report, a data quality analysis was performed on the data. This data was filtered two ways:

1. Any wind speed data (from any anemometer) where the wind speed was less than 1 m/s at a temperature less than 2°C for 4 hours or more was deleted.
2. Any wind direction data (from any wind vane) where the wind direction varied by less than 2 degrees at a temperature less than 2°C for 4 hours or more was deleted.

Windographer was then used to add in synthetic data to these intervals with suspect data.

A summary report, the combined data files, and the Windographer files (with and without the data quality analysis) are given below:

• Badger_Creek_2207_2008_0814_to_2009_1124_Summary_Report.pdf
• Badger_Creek_2207_2008_0814_to_2009_1124_without_data_validation.windog
• Badger_Creek_2207_2008_0814_to_2009_1124_with_data_validation_offset_110.windog
• Badger_Creek_2207_2008_0814_to_2009_1124_with_data_validation_offset_110.txt

Final Wind Resource Summary

Highlights of the wind resource at this site for the data collection period to date are shown below:

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