Patent ID: 8483963

Claim:
A method of predicting annual average wind speed at one or more prospective wind turbine site comprising the steps of: measuring wind speed and direction at a reference meteorological tower and calculating an annual average wind speed at said reference meteorological tower, measuring wind speed at one or more additional meteorological towers and calculating an annual average wind speed at said one or more additional meteorological towers; defining the location or locations of said one or more prospective wind turbine site at which annual average wind speed is to be predicted; calculating exposure, using a computer, at said reference meteorological tower and at said one or more additional meteorological towers; performing a regression of wind speed to exposure between said reference meteorological tower and said one or more additional meteorological towers to calculate a slope and an offset in a linear relationship between wind speed and exposure; calculating exposure at said one or more prospective wind turbine site; and applying said slope and offset to said exposure at said one or more prospective wind turbine site to predict an annual average wind speed for said one or more prospective wind turbine site.