Message-ID: <5415469.1075840453970.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: jay.godfrey@enron.com To: tklight@aep.com, wcmarshall@aep.com Subject: CLear Sky/Trent Comparison Cc: kurt.anderson@enron.com, bo.thisted@enron.com, hollis.kimbrough@enron.com, mark.fisher@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: kurt.anderson@enron.com, bo.thisted@enron.com, hollis.kimbrough@enron.com, mark.fisher@enron.com X-From: Jay Godfrey X-To: tklight@aep.com, wcmarshall@aep.com X-cc: Kurt Anderson, Bo Thisted, Hollis Kimbrough, Mark Fisher X-bcc: X-Folder: \mark fischer 7-12-02\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: FISCHER-M X-FileName: mark fischer 7-12-02 LNotes.nsf Guys Attached is an update/reconciliation of the March numbers for Trent and Clear Sky. As you can see the predicted wind energy, based on the actual wind speeds for the month, is approximately 20% higher for Trent than it is for Clear Sky. This was a result of the average wind speeds (see monthly reports) being 14% higher at Trent: 7.69 m/s vs. 8.8 m/s. Note that the power as wind speeds increase skews the variance in energy higher than the variance in wind speeds. Of particular interest please note that the final curtailment figure has been computed and has increased to 11.29 GWh vs. the preliminary numbers of 7.9 GWh. I hope that this helps, please call me with any questions. JFG ---------------------- Forwarded by Jay Godfrey/EWC/Enron on 04/18/2002 09:24 PM --------------------------- Mark Fisher 04/19/2002 09:07 AM To: Jay Godfrey/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Kurt Anderson/EWC/Enron@ENRON, Bo Thisted/EWC/Enron@Enron, Hollis Kimbrough/EWC/Enron@ENRON cc: Subject: CLear Sky/Trent Comparison Explainations: Predicted: For each 10 minute interval and each turbine the wind speed was converted to a power. The power for each 10 minute interval was then averaged, to produce a mean power for the site. This number was then scaled by the number of turbines to produce a site wide power value, that value was then converted to an energy value. Curtailment: Curtailment logs were provided by the site giving the turbine number and the start and stop time of the curtailment. For each curtailment period the wind speed was found. Due to the fact that wind speeds are lower on non-producing turbines, the wind speed was scaled up by approximately 5%. This wind speed was then converted to power, and then energy. The value of the curtailment number is the sum for all curtailments. Unavailable: The Curtailment value was removed from the predicted production and the result multiplied by the site availability. Difference: This is a sum total, removing the Curtailment and unavailable from the predicted. Line loss: This is 98% of the Difference to estimate a 2% line loss. Net: Is the difference of Difference and line loss. Actual: Is taken directly from the Substation Variance: Is the difference between the Net and Actual Curtailed production: Is the amount of energy not produced due to curtailment. 97% Availability: Is 97% of the curtailed production. 2% line loss: Is 98% of the value in 97% availability Billable Curtailment: Is the value for Curtailment after both availability and line loss are taken into account.