Karen Schneider, Business Development Manager at AWS Truepower, will be presenting Best Practices in PV Technical Due Diligence to Support Financial Performance

Ken Pennock, Forecasting and Research Business Manager at AWS Truepower, will be presenting Integrating Variable Generation Forecasting into Systems Operations

Jeff Freedman, Lead Research Scientist at AWS Truepower, will be presenting a poster The Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP): Description, Goals, and Preliminary Results From the Southern Study Area

Wednesday, December 14th

Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer, will serve as Session Chair during the session titled: Uncertainty and Risk in Resource Assessment: An Overview

Steve Hatlee, Assistant Director of Wind Developer Services, will speak during the session titled: Minimizing Measurement Uncertainty

Jeff Freedman, Lead Research Scientist, will speak during the session titled: Referencing Results to the Long-Term

Thursday, December 15th

Dan Bernadett, Chief Engineer, will speak during the session titled: Correcting from the Ideal – Loss Factors 2

Visit us at booth #10018

Bruce Bailey, President and CEO, will be presenting on the topic: Measuring and Insuring Against Lack of Wind.

Booth #D23

Booth #655

Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer, will be speaking on during the session titled: Intermittency Challenges. This session will explore models and case studies that quantify the impacts of solar intermittency on the distribution system.

Jeff Freedman, Lead Research Scientist, will be presenting Offshore Wind Resource Assessment, during the session Planning for Offshore Wind Development.

Booth #623

Philippe Beaucage, Senior Research Scientist, will be presenting a podium presentation on: New Methods of Simulating the Impact of Turbine-Induced Wake in Large Wind Projects.

Tanjia Maynard, Offshore Project Manager, will be presenting a poster on: Offshore Health and Safety: Essential Considerations.

Whitney Wilson, Senior Engineer, will be presenting a poster on: Grid Congestion and Pricing: Barrier or Opportunity?

Booth #1422

Booth #61

Visit us at booth #02

Bryon Phelps, Product Manager at AWS Truepower, will be presenting at this years conference and exhibition.

Visit us at booth #125

Matt Fiilippelli, Lead Engineer at AWS Truepower, will be presenting the topic, “Overcoming Barriers to Offshore Resource Assessment through Innovative Measurement and Modeling Strategies”. Filippelli’s presentation is in the Offshore Wind Assessment & Site Characterization session of the Post-Summit Great Lakes-Specific Offshore Wind Technology Showcase

Michael Brower, CTO, will present Do more sophisticated models produce more accurate wind resource estimates?

Booth #623

Dr. Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer of AWS Truepower will discuss development, use, accuracies, and areas for improvement of AWS Truepower’s 80-meter state wind resource maps. Daniel Ancona, Vice President for Renewable Energy for Princeton Energy Resources International, will explain his research on wind shear: how real measured data relates to modeled wind data.

The webinar is hosted by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

AWS Truepower will attend The Offshore Renewable Energy Public Meeting on June 23-24 in Arlington, Virginia with other industry experts involved in planning, deployment, operation, and regulation of offshore wind and marine hydrokinetic energy, meteorological and oceanic disciplines relevant to offshore energy.

Presenting from AWS Truepower at this Workshop are: Marie Schnitzer – Director of Solar Services, John Zack – Director of Forecasting and Jackie Frank – Research Scientist

AWS Truepower will make presentations at The Solar Resources and Forecasting Workshop in Golden, CO on June 20-22nd. This forum for stakeholders of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Program to review recent successes and provide input on future research in solar resource characterization, measurement, modeling, and forecasting.

This event is sponsored by NREL.

Marie Schnitzer, Director of Solar Services, will be presenting Understanding and managing distributed solar project risks is a prime focus of developers and investors alike.

Visit our booth, #2559

Monday, May 23, 2011
Bruce Bailey, President and CEO, presenting Wind Resource Analysis/Forecasting Overview (Ballroom E)
Philippe Beaucage, Research Scientist, presenting Do More Sophisticated Models Produce More Accurate Wind Resource Estimates? (Ballroom D)
John Zack, Director of Forecasting, presenting a poster on, Evaluation of Wind Ramp Forecasts from an Initial Version of a Rapid Update Dynamical-Statistical Ramp Prediction System
Mark Taylor, Assistant Chief Meteorologist, presenting a poster on, Quantifying the Impact of Existing Turbines on Downwind Resource Assessment Data Accuracy

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Paul Legac, Applications Engineer, presenting, Merging of Technologies – Performance Monitoring Meets Condition Monitoring (Ballroom E)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Michael Brower, CTO, Moderator for the panel discussion on, Advanced Tools and Techniques for Wind Integration Studies (Scientific) (Ballroom E)
Jeff Freedman, Senior Research Scientist, presenting, A Seasonal Wind Anomaly Forecasting Tool Using Long Term Wind Data (Ballroom E)

Join AWS Truepower at the longest running Solar Conference.

Visit us at booth #10

President and CEO, Bruce Bailey, will be participating as a member of the panel on offshore renewable energy.  Bailey will represent AWS Truepower and will discuss the company’s involvement in an offshore renewable energy development; his unique background and perspective will bring value to the offshore panel.

Dr. Bruce Bailey, President & CEO, will be taking part in the Making Smart Solar Site Assessments webinar, being held on April 13, 2011. To register for this event, Click here.

Matt Filippelli will be presenting, Reducing the Costs of Capturing Wind Data and Assessing Wind Resources.

Visit our booth #S-5
Bruce Bailey, President and CEO, will present Understanding and Improving Wind Plant Performance
through Advanced Science and Technology

Michael Brower, CTO, will present during the session titled, Strengthen Project Performance: Generate Cash Flows When the Wind Blows.

Julien Bouget, Investor Services Team Lead, will present technical risk factors and mitigation measures for renewable energy projects.

Metrics to Optimize By
This introductory webinar will discuss the importance of understanding “normal operations” for your wind plant and how to leverage existing SCADA data to understand what’s recoverable. Attendees will benefit from a deeper understanding of how they can exhaust their existing resources to improve project performance with specific focus on AWS Truepower’s SHARP system.

Visit us at EWEA 2011
Booth #7350

AWS Truepower will participate in a number of panel discussions during this workshop.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
8:20-9:30am
John Zack, Director of Forecasting: “Value of Met Data from Wind Plants and Off-Site Locations”
10:00-11:30am
John Zack, Director of Forecasting: “Progress in Short-Term Wind Time Series and Ramp Forecasting”
12:30-2:00pm
Jeff Freedman, Senior Research Scientist: ” Progress in Day-ahead and Longer-term Forecasting”
2:30-4:00pm
Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer: “Wind Forecasting R&D Activities”

February 24, 2011
1:00-2:15pm
John Zack, Director of Forecasting: “Wind Power Forecast Value and Performance”
2:30-5:00pm
John Zack, Director of Forecasting: “Status of Solar Power Production Forecasting”

Opportunities for Wind Forecasting and Its Influence on Increasing the Value of Wind Generated Electricity.
Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer, presenting on Large Scale Integration of Wind Energy in Grid.

Dr. Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer, will participate in a panel discussion titled: Using Forecasting to Enable Greater Penetration of Wind and Solar Resources during the pre-summit workshop.

Philippe Beaucage, will be presenting Do more sophisticated models produce more accurate wind resource estimates?.
Jeff Freedman, will be presenting WindNET: An Advanced Wind Senor Network to Improve Short Range Wind Forecasts for Electric Utility Dispatch and Operation and Seasonal Forecasting For Wind Energy Applications.

Glen Benson, Manager of Performance Analysis at AWS Truepower, will be speaking on “Metrics to Optimize By – Understanding What’s Normal and What’s Recoverable”

Jim Perry, Director of Investor and Asset Management Services, will participate in a panel discussion titled US Offtakers’ Technical Requirements for Wind Power Projects: What International Manufacturers Need to Know.

Marie Schnitzer, Director of Solar Services to speak on Distributed Solar Project Risks 8 – 9 am.

President and CEO, Bruce Bailey to speak.

Dr. Bruce Bailey, President and CEO to chair forecasting session and Dr. John Zack, Principal to present on Development and Testing of an Innovative Short-Term Large Wind Ramp Forecasting System, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 1:30 – 3 pm, room 520b.

Come visit us at booth #1118

Jaclyn Frank, Research Scientist at AWS Truepower, will be presenting a poster titled “Wind Resource and Plant Output Data Sets for Wind Integration Studies”

Come meet with us at booth #2330.

Tuesday, October 5
1:00pm
Bruce Bailey, President/CEO, AWS Truepower, presenting:
Resource Assessment and Design Conditions for Offshore Wind Energy Projects: An Industry Perspective
Atlantic City Convention Center, Rm 403

Wednesday, October 6
1:30pm
Jeff Freedman, Senior Research Scientist, AWS Truepower, presenting:
Comparison of Environmental Conditions Between Offshore Sites in Europe and United States
Atlantic City Convention Center, Rm. 303

5:00pm
Whitney Wilson, Project Engineer, AWS Truepower, presenting:
An Assessment of Wind and Load Coincidence for Offshore EWITS Project Sites
Atlantic City Convention Center, Rm. 201-202

Matthew V. Filippelli, Senior Engineer, AWS Truepower, presenting:
Innovative Approaches to Offshore Wind Resource Assessment: Block Island Case Study
Atlantic City Convention Center, Rm. 201/202

Come visit us at booth #206.

Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:00 – 2:00PM EDT

Join AWS Truepower’s President and CEO, Bruce Bailey and Director of Solar Services, Marie Schnitzer as they discuss the importance of using established solar resource assessment methods to lower project risk and improve project and site characterization.

Click HERE to view the recorded event and slide deck.

Jim Perry, Manager of Project Engineering at AWS Truepower, will be presenting Assessing Technical, Construction, Financial and Operational Risk Factors for Renewable Energy Projects.  He will identifying the corresponding risk factors for each type of project and address strategies and guidelines for minimizing these risks, specifically speaking to wind.

AWS Truepower will be presenting on multiple topics, please see the list below.

Sept. 13: Pre-Conference Seminar: Resource Assessment 101, Dan Bernadett, Chief Engineer
Sept. 14: Wind Assessment: Raw Data to Hub Height Winds, Michael Brower, Chief Technical Officer
Sept. 14: Climatic Adjustment Comparisons, Steve Hatlee, Project Manager
Sept. 15: New Frontiers: Availability Wants/Needs Survey, Eric White, VP – Investor and Asset Management Services

AWS Truepower’s India Business Head, Arvinder Singh will be presenting on plant underperformance during the “Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities session.

Charles Alonge, Scientific Programmer at AWS Truepower, will be presenting on the Sensitivity of Wind Power Production to Changes in Surface Roughness: Impacts on Wind Turbine Siting and Energy Production.

Matt Filippelli, Senior Engineer at AWS Truepower, will be involved in the panel discussion titled, “The X-Factor: Dealing with Ice and Other Extreme Environmental Challenges”.

Marie Schnitzer, Director of Solar Services at AWS Truepower, will be speaking on Financing Utility-Scale Solar.

Bryon Phelps, Product Coordinator at AWS Truepower, will be giving a talk titled: Site Assessment with Modeled Wind Resource Data

Scientific Track: Wind Resource Assessment (Bruce Bailey, Session Chair), An Analytical Correction to Treat NRG #40 Data Affected by Vibration/DFW (Podium, Erik Hale), Developing Wind Resource and Plant Output Data Sets for Wind Integration Studies (John Manobianco, Podium), Map-Based Energy Assessments: Estimating Wind Plant Production without On-Site Data (Poster), Quantification of Wind Flow Model Uncertainty (Poster), Increasing Project Energy Production Thru Understanding Of Extreme Winds And Site Specific Turbine Loads (Poaster), Impacts of Directional Sensitivity in Wind Plant Yields (Poster)

Development and Testing of an Innovatve Short-Term Large Wind Ramp Forecasting System (John Zack, Podium), Wake Modeling (Poster), Quanitifying model uncertainty (Poster)

Panel Discussion: Identifying Opportunities for Offshore Wind Development

Regional Solutions to Siting and Logistical Concerns (Panel)

Resolving Wind Plant Underperformance

Opportunities for Wind Forecasting and Its Influence on Increasing the Value of Wind Generated Electricity (Podium)

Wind Session (Bruce Bailey)

Philippe Beaucage, Research Scientist at AWS Truepower, will be presenting on Using a Large Eddy Simulation Model to Simulate Wakes from Large Wind Projects.

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Workshop Chair (Eric White)

Peak Load Matching and the Offshore Wind Resource

Using a Large Eddy Simulation Model to Simulate Wakes from Large Wind Projects

Metocean Site Characterization

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