ENERGY RESOURCE MAPPING

Natural Power have proven experience in delivering resource mapping exercises for wind, wave and tidal energy projects, from regional scale right down to device scale.

We employ a wide variety of tools, methods and data sources to create resource maps for any given purpose or region, allowing us to optimise our approach on a case by case basis.

As well as mapping fundamental criteria such as resource magnitude and density (such as mean wind speed, tidal velocity or wave power density), we are also able to provide clients with a statistical analysis of temporal resource variation (such as monthly or annual), and also to provide maps of crucial resource parameters and flow characteristics, such as turbulence, shear and flow inclimation for wind energy applications, or flood/ebb directional offsets for tidal energy applications.