How to Submit Data
The process for submitting data to the WP3 Benchmarking project differs depending on the type of data.
Preconstruction Data
Specifications
- Turbine information
- Turbine model, rated capacity, hub height, rotor diameter
- Power curves (if available)
- Wind plant and turbine layout
- Roads and electrical infrastructure
- Raw meteorological data files and metadata
- Meteorological tower/device location, type, deployment duration
- 10-min raw data
- Pertinent contractual information (as it impacts WRA prediction)
- Turbine availability guarantee values
- Turbine power curve guarantee values
- Wind plant curtailment/interconnection guarantees
- Site and environmental characteristics
- Terrain information
- Land cover
How to Submit
Preconstruction data should be submitted through the PNNL DAP:
- Register for an account on the PNNL DAP Platform
- Contact Jason Fields (jason.fields@nrel.gov) to request access to the WP3 PNNL project
- Follow the instructions on the WP3 DAP Project Page to upload data via SFTP*
*Filezilla is the recommended SFTP client for Windows users.
Operational (SCADA) Data
Specifications
As input to the post construction analysis, we expect:
- Met towers/remote sensing (only if available)
- Wind speed (m/s)
- Direction
- Temperature (optional)
- Pressure (optional)
- Humidity (optional)
- Vertical velocity (optional)
- Plant level Data
- Point of revenue meter
- Power Output (kW)
- Curtailment logs
- Asset Table (Turbine meta-data), including:
- Make
- Model
- Rated Power
- Latitude
- Longitude
- Point of revenue meter
- 10-min turbine level SCADA
- Nacelle Wind speed (provide documentation on the transfer function applied to the anemometer signal)
- Power Output
- Yaw direction (optional)
- Availability tags (status codes with documentation), including
- Online
- Offline
- Offline due to environment (optional)
- Offline due to curtailment (optional)
How to Submit
- Register for an account on the PNNL DAP Platform
- Contact Jason Fields (jason.fields@nrel.gov) to request access to the WP3 PNNL project
- Follow the instructions on the WP3 DAP Project Page to upload data via SFTP*
Energy Yield Assessments (EYA)
Specifications
The format and fields for EYA submissions are documented on this website.
How to Submit
- Register for an account on the PNNL DAP Platform
- Contact Jason Fields (jason.fields@nrel.gov) to request access to the WP3 PNNL project
- Download preconstruction data from the WP3 DAP Project to download data via SFTP*
- Submit consultant response form via Preconstruction Template or API * Provide feedback via Disqus comments on the Preconstruction Template page
- After receipt of submission, download operational (SCADA) data from WP3 DAP Project using SFTP*