IEA Wind Recommended Practice for the Implementation of Renewable Energy Forecasting Solutions

Dr. Corinna Möhrlen earned a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and a Masters and PhD degree from University College Cork, Ireland, where she started her career in the wind energy area in 2000, being responsible for the development of wind energy forecasting in Ireland in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute. She is co-founder and managing director of WEPROG. Founded in 2003, WEPROG provides world-wide operational weather ensemble and energy forecasting services and is highly specialised in the energy industry's renewables integration. Over the past 20 years Corinna gained experience in integrating renewables into real-time operations, served as coordinator and participant in R&D projects, actively writes and reviews journal articles, organises and participates in workshops and advices on application of ensemble forecasting to deal with uncertainties related to renewable energy generation. Corinna is a board member and workpackage 3 leader of the IEA Wind Task 36 "Wind Energy Forecasting" and received an ESIG excellence award for contributions to advances in the use of probabilistic forecasting in 2020. Dr. John W. Zack earned a BS degree in meteorology and oceanography from New York University and a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from Cornell University. He is the President, Chief Scientist and co-founder of MESO, Inc., a 35-year-old small business that specializes in the development and application of physics-based and statistical geophysical models. He is also a Senior Advisor at UL Services Group after leaving his full-time position as the head of the company’s Grid Solutions division in 2018. In 1998, he was one of the founding partners of AWS Truepower, a global leader in renewable energy consulting services, and served on its Board of Directors until its acquisition by UL, Inc in 2016. John is a board member and workpackage 2 leader of the IEA Wind Task 36 "Wind Energy Forecasting" and received an ESIG excellence award for contributions to advances in the use of probabilistic forecasting in 2020. Dr. Gregor Giebel has worked for over 25 years with short-term forecasting of wind power, large-scale integration of wind power into electricity grids, wind farm flow control and condition monitoring for wind turbines including standardisation within the IEC. He is Operating Agent of IEA Wind Task 36 Forecasting for Wind Energy, and heads the FarmConners EU Coordination Action on wind farm control (windfarmcontrol.info) and the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network Train2Wind (train2wind.eu). His main claim to fame is the standard report on the state of the art in short-term forecasting, with over 950 citations. He also is an accomplished writer of research proposals, with a funding quota of over 50%.

1. Forecast Solution Selection Process 2. Designing and Executing Forecasting Benchmarks and Trials 3. Forecast Solution Evaluation 4. Meteorological and Power Data Requirements for Real-Time Forecasting Applications