Energy Resource Analyses for Wind, Solar, Storage, and Hybrid Projects

Early-Stage Development Services

To reduce your project’s technical risk, ArcVera’s team of industry experts provides analysis and insight at the earliest stages of project development.  ArcVera’s valuable insights have provided wind and solar developers and investors with the highest accuracy, resource modeling methodologies, and project optimization support for four decades.

ArcVera’s expert team comprises highly experienced atmospheric scientists, engineers, and analysts in the industry, allowing us to provide clients with optimal project designs, trustworthy energy yield forecasts, and technical insights to improve project economics and bankability.

Management of Wind and Solar Resource Assessment Campaigns

A bankable energy project analysis starts with ArcVera’s responsive wind and solar resource measurement expertise, encompassing campaign design, installation, and management.

A professionally executed renewable energy resource measurement campaign is key to project success. The fielded measurement equipment’s location, configuration, and installation are crucial. Their ongoing management sets the project development pace and is a cornerstone of project success. ArcVera met management services are surprisingly affordable. With ArcVera managing hundreds of wind and solar met stations, we have developed advanced automation and processes, as well as human interaction, to ensure the highest data quality. And we can help you with the field installations with referrals to our network of reliable solutions partners.

ArcVera’s processes recognize that process automation has its limits. ArcVera is committed to quickly engaging in interim analysis as necessary, providing developers with essential data insights. These insights guide critical ‘go’ or ‘no-go’ project decisions. If there is an issue, the ArcVera analysis team quickly intervenes to resolve it, reducing the additional cost to extend the met program and maintaining the baseline 90%+ data acquisition rate and lower data uncertainty.

As the measurement campaign matures, ArcVera analysts have fewer concerns about the quality of the data acquisition. This saves significant time and lowers the cost of downstream ArcVera wind and solar energy resource analysis.

Late-Stage Development Services

Clients bring their developing projects to ArcVera to achieve the optimal balance of productivity and constructability. ArcVera’s decades of experience and state-of-the-science methodologies inform highly optimized project designs.

Our teams of senior engineers and analysts know what makes a wind, solar, or hybrid project successful. The final product is an optimized project and an energy yield report you can take to the bank.

Operational Assessments

Operating assets benefit from ArcVera’s operational backcast energy assessments. Our team ingests your production, availability, and resource data to provide you with an evaluation of the project or portfolio. These operational assessments inform our clients on how these assets perform and indicate operational inefficiencies such as yaw-alignment errors or over-curtailment.

You can rely on ArcVera to give you insight into your operating wind, solar, and hybrid projects and optimize your assets for long-term profitability.

Our energy resource analyses services include:

  • Resource Maps
  • Prospecting Maps
  • Preliminary Project Design and Energy Resource Assessments
  • Meteorological Resource Measurement Campaigns

  • High-Resolution Mesoscale Modeling

  • External Wake Modeling

  • Project Optimization

  • Site Suitability Review and Support
  • Shadow Flicker and Noise Assessments
  • High-Frequency Time-Series Resource and Production Data Sets (i.e., 10-minute or 1-minute)
  • Inputs and Due Diligence for Battery or Hydrogen Storage Modeling
  • Investment-Grade Energy Resource Assessments used for Project Finance and M&As
  • Operational Assessments