Integrated supporting services for the wind power industry demonstrator

Since 2019, global wind power capacity increased by 59%, with further growth expected to achieve carbon neutrality. The ESA-coordinated ISSWIND Demo project aims to provide atmospheric analysis for improved wind and power estimations to reduce planning and implementation costs.

Source: Global Wind Energy Council

The ISSWIND service aims to reduce planning and implementation costs, facilitate access to financing, optimize power trading activities, thanks to improved day ahead wind and power estimations and optimization of construction and maintenance activities. The service targets users within the wind power market such as on and offshore developers, on and offshore operators, transmission system operators, offshore construction and maintenance companies, and investors and insurance entities. The ISSWIND service uses two space assets: GNSS and satellite navigation are used for atmospherical analysis in order to provide input for weather numeric models, thus increasing the accuracy of weather prediction models; and Earth Observation data are used as input for weather numeric models.