Gareth Brown
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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An entrepreneur with a mission to minimise humankind's impact on the planet through renewable energy data.
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💦 Swimming in open water, has taught me an important lesson. 💡 This summer, I’ve been challenging myself to do more open water swimming in oceans…
💦 Swimming in open water, has taught me an important lesson. 💡 This summer, I’ve been challenging myself to do more open water swimming in oceans…
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📣📣 Now it’s official 📣📣 Big day today as Norsk Hydro and Macquarie Asset Management complete the transaction that we announced back in October…
📣📣 Now it’s official 📣📣 Big day today as Norsk Hydro and Macquarie Asset Management complete the transaction that we announced back in October…
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The Role of the Owner in Quality Assurance and Control
AWEA Quality Committee
The Role of the Owner in Quality Assurance and Control focuses on how owners and operators can maximize long-term value of a wind project through the execution and management of a quality program. Whether the quality program is administered through a turbine manufacturer, a service provider, or otherwise, it is the responsibility of the owner to ensure that the quality program is executed successfully.
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Real North American Operating and Loading Conditions: Hub Height to Tip Height Inflow Condition
AWEA
The site conditions specified in the current draft of IEC 61400-1 present design values and limits that are statistical averages of measured features of the inflow conditions. Unfortunately, loading conditions do not always scale linearly with wind shear, turbulence, or wind speed. The incorporation of the 90th percentile of turbulence in the design conditions listed in the standards accommodates for this fact to some extent. To effectively assess the actual loading conditions at a site, the…
The site conditions specified in the current draft of IEC 61400-1 present design values and limits that are statistical averages of measured features of the inflow conditions. Unfortunately, loading conditions do not always scale linearly with wind shear, turbulence, or wind speed. The incorporation of the 90th percentile of turbulence in the design conditions listed in the standards accommodates for this fact to some extent. To effectively assess the actual loading conditions at a site, the distributions of wind shear as a function of wind speed must be measured and assessed by the WTG manufacturer. This presentation draws on a database of North American wind regime assessments at failing or struggling operating assets and compares the loading conditions as predicted by the site condition parameters identified in the standards and by the measured distributions of the aforementioned features of the site conditions. Suggestions are made such that the industry's assessment of project risk in preconstruction projects can be improved.
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Capturing the Lost yield
Wind Turbine Optimization, Maintenance and Repair Summit, Wind Energy Update
Wind farm (known or unknown) lost yield can be caused by a variety of factors such as higher than anticipated wake losses due to poor modelling or stable atmospheres, higher topographic or roughness effects, yaw misalignment errors, commissioning setup errors, blade aerodynamic degradation, control inefficiencies, poor optimisation of the WTG and wind farm operation.
This talk will discuss how these issues can be managed in a holistic approach to boast wind farm performance. Real world…Wind farm (known or unknown) lost yield can be caused by a variety of factors such as higher than anticipated wake losses due to poor modelling or stable atmospheres, higher topographic or roughness effects, yaw misalignment errors, commissioning setup errors, blade aerodynamic degradation, control inefficiencies, poor optimisation of the WTG and wind farm operation.
This talk will discuss how these issues can be managed in a holistic approach to boast wind farm performance. Real world highlights will be discussed to emphasize where sizeable gains can be made to capture the lost yield.
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3D Wind and Turbulence Characteristics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 743–756.
The 3D wind and turbulence characteristics of the atmospheric boundary layer experiment (3D Wind) was conducted to evaluate innovative remote sensing and in situ platforms for measurements of wind and turbulence regimes. The experiment is part of a planned series that focuses on quantifying wind and turbulence characteristics at the scales of modern wind turbines and wind farms and was conducted in northern Indiana in May 2012. 3D Wind had the following specific objectives: (i) intercomparison…
The 3D wind and turbulence characteristics of the atmospheric boundary layer experiment (3D Wind) was conducted to evaluate innovative remote sensing and in situ platforms for measurements of wind and turbulence regimes. The experiment is part of a planned series that focuses on quantifying wind and turbulence characteristics at the scales of modern wind turbines and wind farms and was conducted in northern Indiana in May 2012. 3D Wind had the following specific objectives: (i) intercomparison experiments evaluating wind speed profiles across the wind turbine rotor plane from traditional cup anemometers and wind vanes on a meteorological mast and from a tethered balloon, sonic anemometers (mast mounted and on an unmanned aerial vehicle), three vertical-pointing (continuous wave) lidars and a pulsed scanning lidar, and (ii) integrate these measurements and output from 3-km-resolution (over the inner domain) simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model to develop a detailed depiction of the atmospheric flow, upwind, within, and downwind of a large, irregularly spaced wind farm. This paper provides an overview of the measurement techniques, their advantages and disadvantages focusing on the integration of wind and turbulence characteristics that are necessary for wind farm development and operation. Analyses of the measurements are summarized to characterize instrument cross comparison, wind profiles, and spatial gradients and wind turbine wakes.
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Creating a Secondary Market- A Technical Perspective
REFF Canada (conference)
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Technology Validation: The Engineering Perspective on Working with the Banking Community
OREG/SDI (conference)
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Characterising Wind Turbine Load Climates
Global Wind Power (conference)
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The suitability of European designed wind turbines for the East Asian market
Journal of Environmental Sciences
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Some personal news - we welcomed our baby boy last month and I will be focusing on my role as a new mom in the next year 🤱 It has been a great…
Some personal news - we welcomed our baby boy last month and I will be focusing on my role as a new mom in the next year 🤱 It has been a great…
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The sun is shining on Orange Grove! Construction is underway on Orange Grove Solar – our first solar project in Texas. Upon completion in late 2025…
The sun is shining on Orange Grove! Construction is underway on Orange Grove Solar – our first solar project in Texas. Upon completion in late 2025…
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Understanding mitigable losses is key to improving the revenue and production of your #solar farm. Clir’s component detectors categorize lost energy…
Understanding mitigable losses is key to improving the revenue and production of your #solar farm. Clir’s component detectors categorize lost energy…
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⚡ Energised after spending last week in Warsaw in my new role as Project Development Director at Skyborn Renewables. The energy wasn’t just from…
⚡ Energised after spending last week in Warsaw in my new role as Project Development Director at Skyborn Renewables. The energy wasn’t just from…
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When you start a business, investors often ask you, "What's your exit strategy." My answer was always, "To build a great business." Over the years…
When you start a business, investors often ask you, "What's your exit strategy." My answer was always, "To build a great business." Over the years…
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Yesterday, I closed my laptop for the final time, just 20 days shy of my 18th anniversary at BT - a journey that has taken me through six roles…
Yesterday, I closed my laptop for the final time, just 20 days shy of my 18th anniversary at BT - a journey that has taken me through six roles…
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I'm so happy and humbled to have worked with this legend in Canadian renewable energy. Our industry wouldn't be what it is today without you…
I'm so happy and humbled to have worked with this legend in Canadian renewable energy. Our industry wouldn't be what it is today without you…
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Call out to former colleagues and friends at the 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center. We are having a…
Call out to former colleagues and friends at the 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center. We are having a…
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Thanks 🙏 all for the birthday wishes. So grateful for a perfect July day with friends and family. On a perfect day (not too hot, not too cold, no…
Thanks 🙏 all for the birthday wishes. So grateful for a perfect July day with friends and family. On a perfect day (not too hot, not too cold, no…
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