ISO New England Inc. has awarded GL Garrad Hassan a two-year contract to provide wind power forecasting services in the ISO's footprint, including generation within the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
According to GL, the contract is intended to enable ISO New England to manage wind generation in its real-time and day-ahead markets.
GL is in the beginning stages of this project and has plans to begin the first forecast delivery in 2012. The company has carried out pre-construction energy assessments on many operational and soon-to-be-operational wind projects across the New England region.
"New England offers not only a diversity of topographic features to externally force the wind, but it is among the most complicated regions of the U.S. in terms of its meteorology," notes Dr. Craig Collier, regional practice manager for North America's GH Forecaster service.
