Transcript request to respond to a survey

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Wind Data Web Site Questionnaire:
Background and Preliminary Results
Massachusetts
Wind Working Group Meeting
October 30, 2013
Wind Energy Center
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
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Background
• The WEC has been collecting time series
meteorological data for many years
– Primarily wind, some solar radiation
– Over 60 sites in Massachusetts
– 6 long term sites still operating: Boston Harbor,
Hull, Blandford, Paxton, Holyoke, Nantucket Sound
• Much data publicly available on web site
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Wind Data Web Site
• http://www.umass.edu/windenergy/resourcedata.php
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Questionnaire
• Questionnaire developed to ascertain interest
in the data and the web site
• Questionnaire was sent out by email to
Massachusetts Wind Working Group in early
October
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Question 1
• Are you aware of this data repository?
– If yes, have you used any of this data?
• If so, which sites have you found most useful?
– If no, are you now likely to use any of this data?
• If so, which sites do you expect to be most useful?
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Question 2
• Are there other types of data that you would
find useful? For example
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Solar radiation
Ocean waves
Background sound
High elevation wind data (e.g. using LIDAR or SODAR)
Temperature or temperature difference (stability)
Ice/snow
Web camera
Bird tracking data
Operational data from wind turbines, solar PV arrays, etc.
Other?
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Question 3
• Is there other related material that you would
find useful?
• Some options include:
– On-line applications for viewing or processing the
data
– Tutorials regarding the meaning and use of the
data
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Preliminary Results
• Twenty seven responses
– Somewhat over half (52%) of the respondents
knew of the data site
– Most of those who knew about the site have used
data from one or more sites
– Of those who indicated that they did not previously
know of the data (44%), the majority said that they
would now be likely to use or would consider
using some of the data in the future
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Use of Data
• All of the long term sites were used by at least
two respondents
– The most commonly used site was Blandford,
followed by Boston Harbor (Thompson Island)
• A number of the respondents also used
historical data from the web site
– Data from discontinued monitoring sites
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Interest in Other Data
• Most interest:
– The types of other data most desired were
background sound (10), operational data from
wind turbines or PV systems (9), high elevation
wind data (6) and ocean waves (4)
• Also of interest:
– Solar radiation, temperature/stability, ice/snow and
bird tracking data
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Other Related Material
• Interest also in:
– Other types of data or pre-processing of some of
the data, such as wind shear and turbulence at hub
height and across rotor face, Fourier transforms of
wind data, and high frequency solar data.
– On-line applications for viewing or processing the
data and/or tutorials regarding the meaning and use
of the data
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Conclusion
• Data web site has a number of users
– Ongoing long term data
– Historical data
• Substantial interest in adding more types of
data or other features to web site.
• If you have not responded yet, please do!
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