OUR RESOURCES

Zephyr North has the resources required to carry out an effective wind resource assessment. These include:

• Access to reference historical data; access to and detailed knowledge of Environment Canada's Station Inspector Records hardcopy (located in Downsview, ON) and digital archive
  
  
• A suite of purpose-written wind resource assessment computer programs and the hardware to effectively run them. Programs include data acquisition and quality-assurance, archiving, formatting, listing and displaying, numerical models, utility programs to deal with numerical model input and output.
  
  
• A fleet of 10, 30, 50, and 60 m portable wind monitoring towers and instrumentation.
  
  
• Canada's most experienced tower installation crew and the equipment required for safe, high quality installation to IEC Standards and IEA guidelines.
  
  
• Micro-scale numerical models - MS-Micro/3, WAsP
  
  
• Wind sheltering model - ShelCorr
  
  
• Utility model - GLW - wind profile guidelines for Windows
  
  
• Wind farm design model: ReSoft WindFarm
  
  
• Meso-scale model: WindScope for the creation of fine-scale wind maps
  
  
• However, our most important resource is our people, who have the long-term experience required to expertly, accurately, and effectively use these resources.

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