The Special Training Course on "Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Farm Planning" was successfully conducted by the ITCS unit in association with WRA unit held during 7th to 18th November 2016. This is a special training course for Officials of Ministry of Energy and Mineral Department (MEMD), Uganda. The course provided an invaluable platform for hands on practical training on Introduction to Wind Resource Assessment, Wind Resource Assessment techniques, Site Selection for Wind Monitoring Stations (WMS), Wind Resource Mapping, Installation, Instrumentation and Commissioning of WMS, Met Mast and Modern Measurement Techniques including measurement using remote sensing instruments (SODAR & LiDAR), Data Analytics and Processing, Software tools for Wind data Analysis, Design and Layout, Forecasting and Wind Energy Production. The course was attended by 3 officials from Uganga.
This programme was inaugurated by Dr. Jagmohan Singh Raju, IAS, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) in presence of Dr. S. Gomathinayagam, Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE).
As part of the training programme, the practical training was arranged with the visits to Wind Resource Assessment Analysis Lab, Instrumentation & Commissioning of WMS, Wind Analysis - Data collection, Validation and Processing and Reporting.
As part of the study visit, all the three participants were taken to southern part of Tamil Nadu to visit Wind Turbine Test / Research Station located at Kayathar, apart from visiting Tenkasi, where they got exposure on SODAR usage for wind resource assessment .
Dr. S. Gomathinayagam, Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy distributed the course certificates to the all the three participants after hearing the feedback of all the participants.
The course structure and conduction of the training was highly appreciated by the participants. The participants were very much satisfied by the quality of lectures, practical sessions and hospitality of NIWE and India.
