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Wind Resource Assessment
50-meter wind monitoring tower used in a wind resource assessment that Sustainable Automation is conducting in west central Minnesota.
Most projects will require some level of wind resource assessment as part of the project feasibility study. Sustainable Automation conducts wind resource assessments as one component of its project planning services. Typically one year or more of data is required to accurately predict the performance of a given project, but often there exist publicly available data from nearby wind monitoring stations, which can be correlated with on-site data to enable long term predictions from a relatively short period of on-site data collection. Sustainable Automation’s wind resource assessment services include the following:

• Wind monitoring equipment selection
• Meteorological tower siting
• Meteorological tower erection
• Data-logger setup and programming
• Wind data processing and report generation
• Analysis of wind data in relation to the proposed project

Wind sensors at 30, 40, and 50-meter heights allow for assessment of vertical wind shear.