Professional Services

WEPROG's services and speciali- sation of weather forecasting for the energy industry required from the outset specialised hardware and software solutions. WEPROG's application, the MSEPS system, re- quires continuous research and development in both meteorological problems as well as computer tech- nology, as the 3D-numerical model- ling of the weather is strongly dependent on the computing tech- nology available to solve the numerical functions inside the weather models. The efficiency of the programming source code is also dependent on the processor technology and hence the solvable problem size. The larger the model areas becomes, the more computing capacity is required. To keep highest performance in a cost effective framework is an ongoing challenge that requires continuous testing and recoding of software to be able to make use of technology advances.
WEPROG staff is taking on this responsibility together with their partners and collaborators to always be at the forefront of available technology and to be able to deliver continuous improvements over time. The fact that real-time operations are practised with customers on almost all continents is challenging, but it also provides a unique opportunity to identify issues and solve problems at places far away from target areas, which may be affected by such problems.
Weprog operates and maintains several Linux Clusters, which produce continuously ensembles of weather forecasts and their corresponding physical probability. Real-time products are available 4 times per day at 00,06,12,18 UTC for all continents.
The picture to the left shows the power meter readings of one of WEPROG's blade servers in such a diurnal forecast cycle.

What we offer in brief

Field and point data delivery for specific sites or areas of all weather parameters, wind power, solar power, ramp rate, physical uncertainty and probabilities for all continents
Development of individual forecasting components tailored to task specific requirements
Interactive graphical user interface for data plotting (PLATON)
Advanced short-term forecasts combined with measurements ((iEnKF)
Intra-hour forecasts from native NWP high-time resolution output
Extreme event warning services to wind farm operators
Long-term forecasts
Demand/transmission/wind power integrated forecasting
Simulations for future scenarios with virtual wind power capacity distributions
Optimisation tools for wind power and solar power in ensemble space