The present paper arises from the successful experience of the European Project "Wind and Ports", which mainly focused on the forecast of wind for the management and the safety of port areas. This project lasted 3 years and it involved 6 partners, i.e. the University of Genoa and the Port Authorities of Genoa, La Spezia, Livorno, Savona (Italy), and Bastia (France), with the aim of monitoring and predicting the wind in the main ports of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea for the operational security of port areas. The activities developed at each port within the context of this project consisted in the realisation of: an advanced in situ wind monitoring network; a wind velocity statistical analysis; a medium-term wind velocity forecast (0-3 days) system; a short-term wind velocity forecast (0-1 hour) system; a web-based GIS system realized to make the products of the project directly available to the end-users. Among several opportunities, all these products can be used as building blocks for further applications focusing on wind energy exploitation in coastal areas and in the near offshore. In particular, according to the project results, the statistical analysis has been used for the evaluation of the wind energy production and the efficiency of more than fifty different wind turbines in the Port of Genoa, and three different wind farms have been proposed adopting a small-size, medium-size, and large-size wind turbine. Further applications for predicting the wind energy at an operational level, which is important to promote the smart management of electrical grids, to allow the participation in the day-ahead electricity market, and to plan the maintenance of the wind turbines, are currently on-going and under validation.

The "Wind and Ports" project for wind energy assessment and forecast: the case of the Port of Genoa

BURLANDO, MASSIMILIANO;TIZZI, MARCO;SOLARI, GIOVANNI;
2013-01-01

Abstract

The present paper arises from the successful experience of the European Project "Wind and Ports", which mainly focused on the forecast of wind for the management and the safety of port areas. This project lasted 3 years and it involved 6 partners, i.e. the University of Genoa and the Port Authorities of Genoa, La Spezia, Livorno, Savona (Italy), and Bastia (France), with the aim of monitoring and predicting the wind in the main ports of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea for the operational security of port areas. The activities developed at each port within the context of this project consisted in the realisation of: an advanced in situ wind monitoring network; a wind velocity statistical analysis; a medium-term wind velocity forecast (0-3 days) system; a short-term wind velocity forecast (0-1 hour) system; a web-based GIS system realized to make the products of the project directly available to the end-users. Among several opportunities, all these products can be used as building blocks for further applications focusing on wind energy exploitation in coastal areas and in the near offshore. In particular, according to the project results, the statistical analysis has been used for the evaluation of the wind energy production and the efficiency of more than fifty different wind turbines in the Port of Genoa, and three different wind farms have been proposed adopting a small-size, medium-size, and large-size wind turbine. Further applications for predicting the wind energy at an operational level, which is important to promote the smart management of electrical grids, to allow the participation in the day-ahead electricity market, and to plan the maintenance of the wind turbines, are currently on-going and under validation.
2013
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