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Photorgrapher: Dennis Schwartz
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Oregon State
University's
Energy Resources Research
Laboratory (ERRL)
The ERRL has managed the
data collection, quality assurance and analysis for the Bonneville Power
Administration's wind energy resource studies since 1978 and have managed
other data management activities for transmission line research. It
maintains a large data base of wind data for the Pacific
Northwest. This web page summarizes the wind statistics of
the five Bonneville Power Administration's long term wind monitoring sites in
the Pacific Northwest. The five sites
are located in Montana, Oregon
and Washington.
An additional site was established in August 2002 at Vansycle, OR
sponsored jointly by BPA and NREL's
STEP program. Also included are numerous sites in the OSU Pacific NW Wind
Data Base for the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Northern California, and Northern
Neveda.
Of the original five
historical sites, Browning Depot, MT site was removed on August 13, 2003 and Cape Blanco, OR
site was removed on September 10, 2003. Some
new sites were added in 2005 and 2006.
In September 2005 a site near Wasco, OR was installed and in January 2006 a site called
Chinook near Hermiston, OR was installed. These two new sites primary function
are to aid wind forecasting in those areas. Another site has been installed near Adel, OR
by the Oregon Office of Energy/NREL’s STEP
program in mid-summer 2006. The
data from that site will be included at a later date.
Condon, Oregon
(Photographer: Dennis Schwartz)
All contents copyright 2001,
Energy Resources Research Laboratory.
Last updated: July 23,
2003
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