Regional Wind Energy Assessment Progress Report, June 1987-May 1988.

Technical Report · Thu Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:7039734

Wade, John Edward; Walker, Stel Nathan

The purpose of this report is to discuss the status of Bonneville Power Administrations wind monitoring program and the data collected from 1987 through May 1988. The wind monitoring program has been on-going since 1976. The annual summary of this data provides BPA with a periodic status report on both the equipment and wind resource being measured. There were 12 active sites this year. Three sites were instrumented at more than one level and one site, Cape Blanco, had anemometers at two different locations. The second Cape Blanco anemometer was taken out in January and the Albion Butte site failed in February and was removed in July of 1988. The data recovery rate for all sites this past year was 80%. Two sites were inactive for half the year, Albion Butte and Spring Creek. The Spring Creek site experienced reoccurring failure of the data logger cassette interface. Pequop Summit and Upper Pyle also had low data rates because of problems with the cassette tape reader. For each site data are summarized for the entire period of record in the report's Appendices. For three sites there are 12 years of record. These summaries provide the most important wind speed statistics required by potential wind developers. In addition, the appendices contain pressure and temperature data for each site. 2 refs., 12 figs., 22 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oregon State University. Wind Resources Assessment Laboratory.
• Sponsoring Organization: US Bonneville Power Administration
• DOE Contract Number: BI79-86BP63406
• OSTI ID: 7039734
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-63406-6; ON: DE90009380
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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