Boosting Wind Power with Cloud Computing

Grazed from InsideHPC. Author: Editorial Staff.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Gemma Church reports that the wind energy industry is increasingly looking to the cloud and to modeling and simulation to solve its engineering problems. Wind power is a staple renewable energy source that is often described as relying on mature technology. In many ways, this assumption is correct as wind farms pop up across the globe in increasingly diverse and remote locations. But a lot of innovation is going on behind the scenes.

Many difficulties remain with the way we build and deploy wind turbines, which raises doubts over the profitability of such systems. The physical size of the turbines has increased and this makes such systems more complicated, increases the costs, and adds significant financial risk to projects that can cost hundreds of millions of pounds to complete…

But, while wind power does rely on mature technology, it has not reached an evolutionary stalemate. The tools powering the wind power industry are seeing incremental changes and embracing different methodologies to beat the challenges of reaching profitability and working in some of the most demanding and remote locations on the planet…

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