Renewable Energy

Renewable energy sources (RES) such as solar and wind energy offer a large untapped potential for electricity production The exploitation of these energies requires accurate knowledge of the resources and of their availability (in space and time) as well as accurate forecasts in the different phases of an energy system life cycle. For instance, the site selection process for development of large solar systems, such as photovoltaic (PV) on open land, require data on time-averaged values of solar irradiance from which basic economic assessments of a plant concept can be made.

Accurate, easy accessible and affordable wind information is needed at different levels of detail before deciding the sitting of a wind park as well as during the life- cycle of a wind farm. An error of a few percent in wind resource evaluation may drastically affect the profitability of an
offshore wind park.1

 

EMP Climate Portlet

 

 

Scope: This AIP-2 ER illustrates an end-to-end scenario between a data provider on the one hand and a consulting company looking for the best place to sit a solar power plant on the other hand. Both benefit from GEOSS as a centralized point of access. The needs of the data providers looking for an efficient dissemination of his databases are expressed. The necessary concepts, steps, tools and actions needed on the data providers side to ensure that resources copes with the various GEOSS use cases allowing a full search, discovery and bind mechanisms are described. From W3C Web Service deployment, building INSPIRE ISO 19119 Metadata for WAF (Web Accessible Folder) catalogue, registering components and services in the GEOSS Service Registry, all the necessary steps towards data and catalogue interoperability are detailed. A dedicated Community Portal for Renewable Energy (www.webservice-energy.org) is currently hosting numerous Web Services for the goods of the community. A dedicated client specially build for the scenario as a JSR-168 Portlet is presented. This client allows Web Services chaining from remote interoperable map resources of GEOSS  data providers.  Based on a real business use case, the needs of the consulting company are also expressed within the scenario and illustrate the usefulness of GEOSS.

Point of Contact Editor: Lionel Menard, Mines ParisTech

Contributing Editors: Mines ParisTech and Team

 

The final document is now available. (pdf)