BDE was presented at the 2^nd Annual Wind Power Industry Big Data and IoT Forum in Amsterdam on the 31^st of March 2017 (organized by BIS group). More than a hundred of Wind Industry members attended the event from Wind Power, Energy & Utilities, IT, Technology providers and Operation and Maintenance fields. The focus of the specific industry sector is minimizing costs and risk, optimizing the technology and improving the design, maximizing productivity, developing data-driven trends, based on statistics and gaining from O&M automation, supported by the new IT developments.

The presentations covered the following topics:

• Wind Power Data Evolution: Context and Overview
• Improving Wind Power forecasting and efficiency
• Harnessing the value of Big Data
• Advanced analytics for Big Data
• Performance Optimization and Monitoring
• Making smart decision based on IoT and Big Data
• Data driven monitoring and inspection

The workshop was focused on the following issues:

• minimize levelized costs of energy by co-operation models
• monitor the performance of all turbines in the wind park, observe changes in the power curve over the complete life time and compare them to each other; improving underperforming turbines
• improve the accuracy of commercial renewable energy forecasting systems
• exploit grids of numerical weather predictions to better forecast renewable energy uncertainty
• use machine learning algorithms for turbine performance monitoring
• understanding of how to optimize Wind Turbine Performance and reduce O&M costs through Big Data
• hands-on experience of industry-leaders on using data analytic tools to reduce component failures
• application of Big Data technology and use cases

BDE presentation included the description of the BDI, the roadmap for accessing the platform and the energy pilot content. BDE presentation was the only that described specific technology solutions and application for data volume demanding case, capturing the very interest of the participants.  

by D. Foussekis (CRES)

Over 180 wind resource assessment specialists met in Edinburgh on 16 & 17 March for WindEurope’s 4th Technology Workshop on this popular topic. Wind Resource 2017 focused on how to improve the accuracy of estimating wind potential, through innovative numerical models, validation tools and data processing advances.

In this event, under the scope of BigDataEurope project, CRES presented the BDE developments related to SC3. The presentation regarded the BDI platform and the pilot case. Furthermore, the climate pilot was also included in order to present to the community the BDI application for downscaling purposes, that are in the core of interest for resource assessment.

 The first pilot case presented, addressed the research on system monitoring of a Wind Turbine. The case regards the data acquisition and analysis of voluminous data streams delivered from a network of FPGA-based data acquisition modules covering the condition and operational monitoring of the structure and the drive train. The data streams exceed 15GB per hour and the collected data base is subject to periodical analysis for procedure development. Apache SPARK and HDFS along with specific analysis modules were used for the data management and processing.
Furthermore, the climate pilot developed by NCSR-Dimokritos regarding the climatic dynamic downscaling, for weather forecasting, was presented. The extension of the climate pilot by implementing open source CFD tools for site assessment and forecasting purposes was discussed in the workshop with field specialists.

The workshop outcome supports the efforts for developing the new pilot case for energy, that will address the resource assessment topic.

WINDEUROPE  is a non-profit organization that represents the Wind Industry with the scope of promoting wind power in Europe and worldwide. It has over 500 members, active in over 50 countries, including wind turbine manufacturers with a leading share of the world wind power market, plus component suppliers, research institutes, national wind and renewables associations, developers, contractors, electricity providers, finance and insurance companies, and consultants.

WindEurope organises numerous regular events: conferences, exhibitions, launches, seminars and workshops encouraging the exchange of international experience on policy, finance and technical developments, and showcase the latest technology.

Of importance are the regular technology workshops that are organized for the industry by the industry. During the forthcoming workshop Resource Assessment 2017 various topics will be addressed namely: advanced flow modelling, siting and layout design optimization, outputs in real conditions, measurements and analysis and wakes. Under all topics, the workshop welcomes presentations covering how to handle big data, how resource assessment can contribute to minimizing the cost of energy, and how to reduce uncertainty.

BigDataEurope seizes the opportunity to present Big Data Europe Integrator Platform (BDI) and pilot developments in the event. The extension of the BDE pilot for dynamic downscaling with boundary layer simulations (CFD) for the application to resource assessment field will be discussed.

WindEurope event flagship is the Annual Conference to be held at the end of November. BigDataEurope will participate in the event, presenting to the community the final BDE platform and the operating pilot cases in Energy domain.