Wind Energy Assessment Studies in the Cape Blanco Area : Progress Report, October 1982-September 1983. Final Report.

Technical Report · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:5963179

Wade, John E; Baker, Robert W; Katen, Paul C

Site specific investigations of wind power potential have been conducted on the southern Oregon Coast for the past two years. This report describes two new studies that were initiated in this area and work conducted during the 1982-1983 contract period. The first is a wind farm feasibility study near Cape Blanco and the second is a joint study by two BPA contractors, United Industries Corporation (UIC) of Bellevue, Washington, and Oregon State University Wind Resource Assessment Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon. The secod study involves development and testing of a site assessment strategy on the southern Oregon Coast. The Cape Blanco Wind Farm Feasibility Study is a joint effort of BPA, Wind Farms Northwest (a private wind farm developer) and two northwest utilities, Pacific Power and Light and Portland General Electric. OSU is contracted by BPA to provide the meteorological assessment for this study. The area under investigation is two adjacent ranches with a combined area of 1500 acres (500 hectares). The work conducted during the initial year of the two-year study emphasized site selection of two meteorological tower locations and collection of kite data to assess the wind power potential. The work described also involves development of a numerical model based on site assessment strategy and the study area encompassing a larger area on the Southern Oregon Coast. The main purpose of the study is to develop a better input data set for the UIC's two and three dimensional models. Part of this task included testing a technique for mapping large scale wind flow field irregularities using simultaneous aircraft and kite wind measurements.

• Research Organization: Oregon State Univ., Corvallis (USA). Dept. of Atmospheric Science
• Sponsoring Organization: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
• DOE Contract Number: AC79-81BP29182
• OSTI ID: 5963179
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-337; ON: DE85008098
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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