Virtual Met Mast is a site-specific, hub-height wind prediction solution designed to assist in the development of onshore and offshore wind farm sites. Employing world-class science, Virtual Met Mast offers clear, cost-effective and reliable analyses to help you make informed decisions about your European wind farm investments.

Using our numerical weather prediction models and supercomputer technology, Virtual Met Mast™ provides key wind climatology statistics including long-term mean wind speed and direction, exceedence values, maximum gusts, wind shear and turbulence intensity.

Our enhanced version, Virtual Met Mast Plus, incorporates on-site measured observations to further improve the accuracy for confident site selection decisions.

FEATURES

Features of Virtual Met Mast™ include:

• 22 year climatology including average annual wind speed with associated certainty values.

• Finely modelled to maintain atmospheric integrity and sitespecific detail down to 100 m resolution.

• Extreme wind speeds including maximum 3 second gusts and 10 minute average.

• A wind frequency distribution analysis.

• 10-year hourly time series data.

 BENEFITS

With an accurate long-term wind assessment to support site development and investment decisions, Virtual Met Mast™ helps to support decision-making with the following benefits:

• Increased cetainty of long-term wind resource.

• Time and cash flow savings by delaying investment in real met masts.

• Accurate wind assessments in areas where no reliable wind data is available.

• Quicker decision making — receive wind resource estimates in days rather than months.

• Lower due dilligence costs to benefit smaller wind projects.