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through February, and the lowest from April to September. However, there are some regional differences in the seasonal variability. For example, in the northern Philippines, the months with the highest wind resource are October through February; and in much of the central and southern Philippines, November through March are the months with the highest wind resource. Two areas of the Philippines (the southeastern Mindanao coast and the western coast of Palawan) have a relatively high wind resource from June through September during the southwest monsoon. The wind resource maps and other wind resource characteristic information will be useful in identifying prospective areas for wind-energy applications. However, very limited data of sufficient quality were available to validate the wind resource estimates. Therefore, we strongly recommend that wind measurement programs be conducted to validate the resource estimates and to refine the wind maps and assessment methods where necessary. x
1.0 Introduction 1 Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the Philippines Upon learning of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) capability in regional- or national-scale wind energy resource assessment, the Winrock International Philippines Renewable Energy Project Support Office (REPSO) and Preferred Energy, Inc. (PEI), worked with other interested parties in the Philippines to propose and fund the development of a nationallevel Wind Energy Resource Atlas. The Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research and Development (PCIERD), of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), and the Philippines National Oil Company (PNOC) each provided funding for the study through Winrock International. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provided significant funding for the development of the Wind Energy Resource Atlas, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supported the overall coordination and data gathering for the Wind Atlas development effort. The project was intended to facilitate and accelerate the use of wind energy technologies—both for utility-scale generation and off-grid wind energy applications—in the Philippines, by providing the best possible estimates of wind energy resources over the entire national territory. The Philippines National Power Corporation (NPC) supported the project by contributing wind-monitoring data collected at 14 prospective wind energy sites and by providing other technical assistance. Winrock International and REPSO had the lead responsibility in administering this project and in collaborating with the Philippine organizations and NREL on project activities. NREL had the technical lead for the wind resource analysis and mapping activities. The primary goal was to develop detailed wind resource maps for all regions of the Philippines and to produce a comprehensive wind-resource atlas documenting the mapping results. This document, the “Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the Philippines,” presents the wind-resource analysis and mapping results for the Philippines. The maps identifying the wind resource were created using a Geographic Information System- (GIS) based program developed at NREL. The mapping program, which combines high-resolution terrain data and formatted meteorological data, is designed to highlight areas possessing a favorable wind resource where specific wind energy projects, both for utility-grid applications and rural power applications, are likely to be feasible. The entire Philippines archipelago was mapped as part of this study. This is the first detailed national-scale wind energy resource atlas for a developing country, and one of the very first in the world. In addition to the Philippines, NREL has applied its new wind mapping system to produce wind resource assessments of the Dominican Republic (Elliott, 1999) and Mongolia (Elliott et al., 1998), and specific regions of Chile, China, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States (Schwartz, 1999; Elliott et al., 1999). The report is divided into six sections. An overview of the geography and climate of the Philippines is presented in Section 2.0. The wind resource information used to create the meteorological input files is highlighted in Section 3.0. A description of the mapping system is presented in Section 4.0. The wind resource characteristics of the Philippines and the wind mapping results are presented in Sections 5.0 and 6.0, respectively. Appendices are included that highlight the analysis results from the NPC monitoring sites and selected surface-based sites from the DATSAV2 database, summarize data for three of the upperair stations, and show maps and monthly summaries of wind speed and wind power from the satellite ocean wind data.
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