Introduction

The aim of this project was to construct a wind resource model, using data that is freely available in the public domain (i.e. the internet), that can be used to predict the best locations for building a wind farm, thus reducing the economic and environmental impact of traditional wind farm planning.

To this aim, our project was split into three phases:
          Phase 1 – Background Reading and Research
          Phase 2 – Constructing the Model
          Phase 3 - Model Validation and site locating

Our objectives in this project were to:

• Establish a methodology to estimate the wind resource of a site using free available data
• Verify this methodology by applying it to a well-known site (in Scotland) and comparing the results of our process with the actual measured resource of the site.
• Use this methodology to identify different sites in India.
  Once the sites have been identified, use the roughness and orography maps available to validate the potential of the sites.
• Correlation with other data (demand, other existing resources, etc…)
• Run WAsP to estimate the wind resource of the sites.
• Conclude on the interest and efficiency of the sites.

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