The Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme has launched a tender for companies interested in studying the current landscape for mesoscale wake models available to the sector.
OWA said that the impact of the mesoscale far wake is becoming increasingly important as more wind farms are built within close proximity to each other.
“It is key to better understand the impact of one wind farm on another so developers may have increased confidence in predicting the wake impacts from other projects,” it said.
The main aims of the tender are to review existing mesoscale wake modelling tools currently available within the industry and identify suitable datasets for analysing farm to farm wake effects.
Interested parties have until 11 November to apply.