Barcelona, Istanbul, and New York – April 24, 2013 – AWS Truepower LLC, world leader in renewable energy consulting, today announced it is further strengthening its position in the global renewable market by establishing a partner consultancy in Istanbul, Turkey. This office will provide the Turkish renewable energy market with access to AWS Truepower’s thirty years of experience in technical consulting, advisory services, software and data for wind and solar technologies.

The new consultancy will be led by Mr. Ahmet Gurel and employs several staff with experience in renewable energy technology and has a well-established network of customers and partners.

“We look forward to working with Mr. Gurel and his team to expand our global footprint with their local presence,” explained Joan Aymamí, Vice President of International Business. “Having a local office in Turkey will help the company build and grow relationships, and address and respond to the unique needs of the market.”

Demand for renewable energy is growing rapidly in Turkey as growth in energy demand outpaces economic expansion. Projections show that by the end of 2023 the country could have 18 GW of new wind capacity. Turkey has the potential to install 40 GW of onshore wind-power capacity, with 11,000 megawatts of wind projects already licensed.

AWS Truepower will offer services such as renewable resource and energy assessments, infrastructure support services, independent engineering and due diligence studies, energy forecasting, grid integration studies, operational assessments and other services to support successful renewable energy projects. These services will help the Turkish market maximize system performance and better plan renewable energy delivery.

In addition to this new presence in Turkey, AWS Truepower serves the global renewable energy market from its headquarters in the USA (Albany, New York); offices in Spain (Barcelona), India (Bangalore), Brazil (Curitiba), Mexico (Guanajuato); and partnerships in Poland (Warsaw) and Argentina (Buenos Aires).

AWS Truepower, LLC today released its quarterly analytical Wind Trends Bulletins for Europe, India, and North America. Each report independently reviews wind resource performance based on AWS Truepower’s long-term simulated wind resource data set. Third quarter key findings indicate that wind speeds varied throughout these regions.

Europe: Most of the continent experienced above-average wind speeds relative to the long-term average for the same period while below-normal wind speeds were only observed in central Europe and Scandinavia.

India: Across central and west-central India wind speeds were well above normal while below-average winds occurred across most other regions.

North America: Much of the region experienced normal to below-normal wind speeds, while across most of the eastern and western United States wind speeds were 5 – 15% below average and winds were near average in the Great Plains and much of Canada.

“Wind Trends Bulletins utilize AWS Truepower’s windTrends data set, which provides important reference points not just across North America, India and Europe, but globally as well,” said Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer at AWS Truepower. “For our expansive customer base of wind project developers and stakeholders around the world, AWS Truepower provides rich wind trend information, which is key to objectively evaluating project risk, performance and profitability potential. Especially in the current financing climate, it is important that siting, design, performance evaluation and due diligence efforts incorporate accurate historical data to support the success of a wind power portfolio.”

AWS Truepower assesses portfolios of pre- and post-construction assets that take into consideration long-term and annual fluctuations in wind resource to gauge portfolio risk. The Wind Trends Bulletins provide wind plant owners, investors and operators with a high-level analysis of wind resource performance influenced by climatic fluctuations. This aids in identifying potential issues with wind plant underperformance.

Download the full versions of Wind Trends Bulletins online:

Europe: http://www.awstruepower.com/2012/12/wind-trends-bulletin-2012-q3-europe/

India: http://www.awstruepower.com/2012/12/wind-trends-bulletin-2012-q3-india/

North America: http://www.awstruepower.com/2012/12/wind-trends-bulletin-2012-q3-north-america/

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Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and New York – July 31, 2012 – AWS Truepower, LLC and AIRES Renewables today announced a strategic partnership to provide renewable energy consulting services to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Drawing from years of combined expertise and experience developers, investors, government agencies, and utilities will benefit from a wide-ranging set of solutions. Part of the offering includes proven and reliable renewable resource modeling and measurement, energy assessments, engineering studies, forecasting services, grid integration studies and operations services to maximize system performance and better plan energy delivery.

“We are pleased to be working with Aires to provide clients with a single source for wind and solar data, resource modeling, energy assessments, bankable reports, engineering and proven methods to identify project risks. We expect that there will be many opportunities for us to offer strong local support and advanced solutions to a rapidly growing renewables market in Latin America,” – said Joan Aymamí, Vice President of AWS Truepower.

The strategic partnership builds on the existing relationship the two firms began earlier this year. In February 2012 AWS Truepower and Aires Renewables announced a joint venture for a $1 million project to identify and quantify the wind and solar resources in the San Juan province of Argentina. The work, funded through Argentina’s San Juan province power utility, EPSE, aims to provide the government with validated, high-resolution wind and solar resource maps, long-term datasets and build-out scenarios for renewable energy projects throughout the San Juan territory. The project is expected to last until the end of 2013.

“Partnering with AWS Truepower allows us to meet the needs of the growing renewables market,” said Sebastian Kind, CEO of Aires Renewables. “With over 45 years of combined expertise our firms provide a full range of solutions to support renewable energy project lifecycle. We are excited to expand our offering in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.”

Work has also begun with Argentinean-based, CAMMESA and ENARSA. AWS Truepower, with the support of Aires, will provide wind energy forecasts to support two operational wind plants in the region. This forecasting service will help reduce the risk and uncertainty associated with integrating renewable energy into the electric grid.

About AWS Truepower, LLC.

AWS Truepower provides the most accurate, reliable, and innovative renewable energy project development and operations solutions available today. Energy developers, investors, utilities, system operators, and governments rely on the company’s 30 years of experience, proven science and technology to reduce uncertainty, mitigate risk, and maximize return on their investments. Headquartered in New York, AWS Truepower has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Learn more about the company online at www.awstruepower.com.

About AIRES Renewables. 

AIRES Renewables is an Argentinean-Italian company that specializes in project engineering for renewable energy projects. AIRES has experience in South America, with projects in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Clients include the Ministry of Energy of Chile, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), San Juan Government in Argentina, developers, and electric companies. Learn more about the company online at www.aires-renewables.com.

Partnership Offers AWST’s Resource Analysis and Uncertainty Reports Based on Site Data from Draker’s PV Prospector Standalone Data Acquisition System 

BURLINGTON, VT and ALBANY, NY – July 10, 2012 – Draker and AWS Truepower, LLC (AWST), today announced the creation of a joint marketing alliance that will combine the resources and expertise of both companies to offer solar project developers and investors start-to-finish bankable solar resource and energy production reports. Drawing from years of combined experience spanning hundreds of completed projects, the two companies will seamlessly offer proven and reliable field data collection services, data hosting, long-term resource assessment and energy modeling and uncertainty reports.

Commenting on the partnership, Draker CEO Chach Curtis said, “As solar PV projects grow larger and required investment increases, project developers and financers are increasingly seeking site-specific data to better understand expected energy production and lower their risks and finance costs. We are pleased to be working with AWST to provide these customers a single source for site data, resource modeling and energy projections for their prospective solar PV projects.”

“With the emerging solar industry poised for rapid growth, adoption of proven methods to ascertain and quantify project risks is critical during financial transactions.  We are leading the industry in these methods and look forward to partnering with Draker to offer a robust, comprehensive solution to the solar industry,” added Marie Schnitzer, Vice President, Consulting Services at AWS Truepower.

Drawn from its more than 10-year history of independent solar PV performance monitoring, Draker’s PV Prospector is a self-contained and robust data acquisition system perfectly suited for remote operation at unattended prospective solar PV sites. During site assessment, solar resource and other meteorological data are collected from PV Prospector over a period typically between 12 and 24 months.  The data is then wirelessly transmitted in near real-time to Draker’s servers where it can be accessed and viewed by customers through Draker’s intuitive web application.

This data is also shared throughout the prospecting period with AWST’s meteorologists and solar engineers. Using calibrated resource and energy assessment methods and a measure-correlate-predict (MCP)-type approach, AWST develops energy production models under a range of uncertainty scenarios. With more than 25 years of experience in meteorological studies and over 60,000 MW of wind and solar resource assessments, AWST’s energy estimates and uncertainty analyses are among the most trusted in the industry.

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AWS Truepower announces the release of “Wind Resource Assessment: A Practical Guide to Developing a Wind Project” (Wiley, 2012) on June 15. The book provides authoritative, practical guidance wind energy planners, managers, developers, tower installers, and others involved in wind monitoring and resource assessment for utility-scale wind projects around the world.

Michael Brower, PhD, lead author and Chief Technical Officer of AWS Truepower, noted, “Every industry  needs standards to succeed. This is especially true of wind resource assessment. This new book – representing the knowledge of a team of AWS Truepower experts who have assessed over 60,000 MW of wind projects – will help readers avoid costly mistakes in a project’s development.”

The book explains how readers can achieve a high standard of resource assessment, reduce the uncertainty associated with long-term energy performance, and maximize the value of their wind assets. Topics addressed include siting, installation, and operation of a high-quality wind monitoring program, methods of data quality control and validation, extrapolating measurements from anemometer height to turbine height, adjusting short-term observations for historical climate conditions, and wind flow modeling to account for terrain and surface conditions. In addition, special topics such as remote sensing (sodar and lidar), offshore resource assessment, climate change, uncertainty, and plant design and energy estimation are reviewed.

To purchase a copy of Wind Resource Assessment: A Practical Guide to Developing a Wind Project, please visit the publishers website, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118022327.html.