Day 1 - 2. DOE Wind Energy Tech Office – Bob Marlay, WETO Director | Wind Energy Industry Workshop
Channel: NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
Date: 2020-11-16

INDUSTRY WORKSHOP: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE CHALLENGES FOR THE WIND INDUSTRY

Sponsored by Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling (MMC) Team
October 19-20, 8:00 - 12:00 MDT (1400 - 1800 UTC)


Monday, Oct. 19 - Big Picture Vision for Atmospheric Science Research
(Times in MDT)

8:00  Welcome and Goals – Sue Haupt, NCAR

8:10  Introduction to DOE Wind Energy Technology Office (WETO) – Bob Marlay, WETO Director

8:20  DOE Panel
Vision for DOE’s Wind Program – Mike Derby, WETO Chief Technology Officer
Vision for Atmospheric Science Research – Shannon Davis, WETO Program Analyst
Current Atmospheric Science Research – Sue Haupt, MMC PI
Discussion

9:20 Industry Visioning Panel, Caroline Draxl, NREL (Moderator)
Industry Use of High-Fidelity Modelling – Mark Ahlstrom, NextEra
Philippe Beaucage, UL / AWS Truepower
Greg Oxley, Siemens-Gamesa
Pieter Gebraad, Siemens-Gamesa

10:30  Directions for Break-out group sessions

10:40  Break-out groups to discuss our vision for how atmospheric modeling will advance wind energy science and application

11:30  Full group – report outs and full group discussion


Tuesday, Oct. 20 - Technical Research Conversations

8:00  Welcome back and Summary of Day 1 – Larry Berg, PNNL

8:10  Panel 1 – Offshore Wind Modeling Opportunities and Challenges, Will Shaw, PNNL (Moderator) 
Keynote: Where Are We and Where Do We Need To Go on Data? – Charlotte Bay Hasager, DTU
Keynote: Where Are We and Where Do We Need To Go on Modeling? – Xiaoli Guo Larsén, DTU
Data & Mesoscale Modeling – Branko Kosović, NCAR
Industry Perspective – Andreas Knauer, Equinor
Microscale Modeling – Matthew Churchfield, NREL
Wind-wave Coupling – Peter Sullivan, NCAR
Discussion

9:30 Short break

9:40 Panel 2 – Modeling Challenges for Wind Energy, Sue Haupt, NCAR (Moderator) 
Dynamic Nature of the Atmosphere as Captured by MMC – Jeff Mirocha, LLNL
Industry Use of High Fidelity Modeling – Mark Zagar, Vestas
Evaluating Model Errors – Colleen Kaul, PNNL
Vijayant Kumar, Sentient Science
Discussion

10:30  Parallel Sessions for More Detailed Technical Conversation. Each session will kick-off with short prepared talks, then evolve into guided visioning conversation.

Session 1:  Details of Downscaling, Jeff Mirocha, LLNL (Moderator)
Turbulence Generation – Domingo Munoz-Esparza, NCAR
Terra Incognita research – Raj Rai, PNNL
The Gap Between Modelers and End-Users – Pep Moreno, Vortex

Session 2:  Modeling for Turbines, Matthew Churchfield, NREL (Moderator)
Use for Loads – Eliot Quon, NREL
Modeling for Controls – Paul Fleming, NREL
Modeling Challenges – Jennifer Newman, REsurety, Inc. 

Session 3:  Using AI in Atmospheric Modeling, Timothy Juliano, NCAR (Moderator)
Better Machine Learning Models of the Surface Layer – David John Gagne, NCAR
Downscaling with Deep Learning – Ryan King, NREL
Improving Forecasts with Machine Learning – Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, UL/AWS Truepower

11:30 Report outs and large group discussion
Noon  Disperse

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