Archive for the ‘Wind Energy’ Category
Emissions savings from wind power
Recently, economist Colm McCarthy noted that: Wind generators can be relied on to produce power only about one hour in three over a year, and those productive hours are unpredictable. So conventional capacity has to be kept in reserve for the periods when the wind does not blow. These stations will be utilised less than [...]
August 31, 2011
Tags: Wind Energy Posted in: Wind Energy 
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Large scale weather correlations using R’s raster package
The previous post on this blog used historical wind speed data from ECMWF reanalysis. Reanalysis products are observation-based snapshots of past states of the atmosphere. They provide a physically consistent picture of the past using current models and the historical data. For example, suppose you want to know the relation between spatially averaged Irish and [...]
March 21, 2011
Posted in: Climate, Wind Energy 2 Comments
