At the Wind Europe Conference in Bilbao, the people behind the New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) presented the latest results. The project is almost finalized.
For the last 4 years, a group of researchers has been working on creating a New European Wind Atlas. The aim of the wind atlas has been to develop a map to be used as a standard for site assessment. Overall, the new atlas provides a unified high resolution and freely available data-set of wind energy resources in Europe.
The final NEWA workshop took place during the Wind Europe conference in Bilbao this week. At the workshop project leader and DTU Wind Energy professor Jakob Mann presented a few maps showing the areas where the group has been testing the NEWA-function.
The picture above shows four different things. The light green shows the European countries, which are a part of NEWA. The darker green shows the origin of the different partners in the project. The coasts alongside Europe are marked with a light blue colours showing the offshore coverage which is provided by NEWA. Finally, the red markers show the experimental sites within the project.
It is expected that a validated atlas of Europe with 50 metre resolution is going to be launched at the 5th edition of WindEurope Technology Workshop in Brussels in June.