(European Wind Energy Association, 2009) Lozano, Sergio; Irigoyen, Uxue; Martí, Ignacio; Cantero Nouqueret, Elena; Pascal, Edurne; Fernandez, P.; Frías Paredes, Laura; Garciandia, J.; Zubillaga, E.; Estadística e Investigación Operativa; Estatistika eta Ikerketa Operatiboa
With an increasing number of wind farms planned in multiple locations without wind resource
information, that comprise entire countries, there is a need for long term wind assessment, for
both onshore and offshore wind resource potential.
The focus of this work is to find the optimum methodology to build a wind map taking into
account not only accuracy, but also the computational requirements.
For this purpose six different wind resources maps have been calculated for Spain using a
mesoscale model (SKIRON).
The wind maps were calculated with different inputs and model configuration.
An extensive validation was carried out using 24 meteorological station.