Wind Energy Forecasts for BPA Region & Sites

Vaisala Xweather provides accurate renewable energy forecasts for utility-scale wind and solar projects in North American RTO/ISO regions.

This high-quality data set for wind energy projects in the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) region helps asset owners, project managers, and energy traders make confident, data-driven decisions at the site-specific and regional level to effectively manage investments, reduce future risks, and gain a competitive edge in energy markets.

- Look ahead with 7-day power forecasts at 1-hour intervals at the plant and regional level for real-time and day-ahead markets.

- Look back at site-level estimated actual power data in 5-minute intervals for the last 24 hours.

Xweather combines cutting-edge weather and environmental modeling, robust data science, and powerful supercomputing to produce accurate energy forecasts and actual power estimates for wind and solar projects.

This data set is updated daily with the latest 7-day forecast and the last 24 hours of estimated actual power data, for all sites in the BPA region in our database.

Your subscription includes access to additional data visualization tools and resources on the Vaisala Xweather renewable energy portal. Please see https://www.xweather.com/renewable-energy/forecasting for details.

Tables included:

LATEST 7-DAY FORECAST
LAST 24 HOURS ESTIMATED ACTUAL POWER
REGIONAL SITES METADATA

Fields included:

LATEST 7-DAY FORECAST
- NAME — renewable energy project name
- TIME — date and time for the forecast
- FORECAST — forecasted power in MW
- INTERVAL — the time between forecasts
- TIME ZONE — local time zone for time values
- FORECAST CREATION TIME — date and time the forecast was created
- MODEL INITIALIZATION TIME — date and time when the forecast model was initiated

LAST 24 HOURS ESTIMATED ACTUAL POWER
- NAME — renewable energy project name
- TIME — date and time for the observation
- ESTIMATED ACTUAL POWER — estimated actual power in MW
- INTERVAL — the time between observations
- TIME ZONE — local time zone for time values
- FILE CREATION TIME — date and time the file was created

REGIONAL SITES METADATA
- NAME — renewable energy project name
- ALTERNATE_NAME — alternative name
- EIA_PLANT_CODE — U.S. Energy Information Administration project ID
- MAX_CAPACITY — project capacity in MW
- MODEL — turbine model used in wind projects
- ONLINE_DATE — operational start date
- LATITUDE — location of the project
- LONGITUDE — location of the project
- STATE — location of the project
- COUNTY — location of the project

DATA FORMAT AND GRANULARITY

Data is provided for projects and sites within the BPA region in our database.

The data set includes three tables.

1) The first table contains site-specific metadata about each project in the region such as name, location, and capacity.

2) The second table provides a 7-day energy forecast (168 hours) in 1-hour intervals for each site in the region and a forecast for the BPA region as a whole.

3) The third table contains the estimated actual power output from each site and for the region as a whole over the last 24 hours in 5-minute intervals.

SOURCES
The total actual power for the region comes from BPA. The estimated actual power for each site in the region and the 7-day energy forecasts are produced using Vaisala's proprietary blend of numerical weather prediction trained models, statistical data modeling, and sophisticated machine-learning algorithms. Wind energy estimates and forecasts combine the actual operating characteristics of each project with the most advanced weather forecasts available.

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集提供美国BPA地区风电项目的7天功率预测（1小时间隔）和24小时实际功率估算（5分钟间隔），包含站点元数据、预测模型及地理信息，每日更新，辅助能源投资者进行决策分析。数据源自BPA官方统计和Vaisala的天气预测模型与机器学习算法。