Windlab Systems Pty Ltd.927 Wing Street, Plymouth, Michigan, United States

Windlab Limited (“Windlab”) is a global renewable energy development company.  It was established to commercialise world leading atmospheric modelling and wind energy assessment technology, developed by Australia’s premier scientific research institute, the CSIRO. Windlab owns and exclusively utilises this suite of industry best practice tools to identify and efficiently develop, finance, construct and operate high quality wind farms around the world, with considerably greater certainty and substantially less risk.  This technological advantage has enabled Windlab to amass a portfolio of high quality wind farm development sites totalling 7,406 MW of potential capacity across North America, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa.  Windlab has completed the development of 1,093 MW of capacity across three continents. These projects are either currently under construction or are amongst the best operating projects in their respective markets.

Windlab’s key to success is the combination of its team and advanced technology.  The WindScape technology has allowed Windlabto identify literally hundreds of green-field wind farm sites at a desktop level, by wind mapping extensive territories across multiple continents to a 100m x 100m resolution, with significantly higher accuracy than other industry tools.  Windlab has investigated and secured the best of these opportunities and today is developing 48 projects with an unparalleled success rate.  WindScape has allowed Windlab to achieve this rapidly whilst deploying only a fraction of the capital used by other Australian and international developers.

Windscape

To be effective, wind mapping technology must cover vast areas, typically the size of complete states or even countries. At the same time resolution is important, as topographic features that accelerate the wind to economic levels can be hidden in low resolution mapping.  WindScape is a broad area high resolution wind mapping system that is capable of mapping vast areas at a resolution of 100m or better. Originally developed by Windlab scientists while they were with the Australian scientific organization CSIRO and then extensively developed in-house, the software uses as its starting point inputs from weather data collected around the world.

Asset Management

Windlab Asset Management Pty Ltd (WAM) is Australia’s leading dedicated specialist renewable energy asset management team.  WAM is a trusted, experienced partner, combining international and local experience with a strong industry reputation.

WAM has over $1Billion AUD of energy assets under management comprised of:

• Wind farms;
• Solar farms;
• Hybrid renewable energy assets

WAM offers service that is different from our competitors. All our partners benefit from:

• Unrivalled local market acumen and industry experience;
• Best in class operating outcomes;
• Centralised management;
• Access to WAM’s experienced team of industry experts;
• WAM’s established relationships with key market players;
• Established systems and processes to ensure compliance and operating efficiencies;
• Access to WAM’s advanced problem-solving capabilities.

Our Systems

WAM has designed processes and procedures internally and with external bodies in order to establish efficient means of operating renewable energy projects. Specialised hardware and software provides an effective connection to the National Electricity Market and allows WAM to manage the settlement process smoothly and provide accurate and timely revenue to customers.

• We have experience with AEMO-compliant scheduling and dispatch systems including an interface with plant SCADA;
• Our big data processing capability monitors plant performance from which we can produce detailed Operational Reports;
• We have a full-scope enterprise accounting system;
• We have an in-house risk, compliance and contract management system that is customised for each asset under management;
• We maintain over a decade’s worth of AEMO market data;
• We have corporate record keeping and document management systems;
• We have disaster recovery and business continuity systems.