albatross

albatross is a Python package designed for wind energy analysis and visualization. It utilizes NREL’s [Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit](https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html) and [REsource eXtraction (rex)](https://github.com/NREL/rex) package, and is inspired in part by a similar package aimed instead at Marine Renewable Energy, [MHKiT](https://github.com/MHKiT-Software/MHKiT-Python).

Features

albatross consists of two primary modules:

• requests:

  • Request WIND Toolkit data by lat/lon point via HSDS

  • Read WIND Toolkit data from a local HDF5 file

  • Identify WIND Toolkit region and associated lat/lon coordinates, given a lat/lon point

• analysis:

  • Draw boxplots for inferred windspeed fields (or other specified fields)

  • Plot windrose chart for wind speed and direction data

  • Fit a Weibull distribution for wind speed data and plot a histogram/line chart showing probability density

  • Generate and/or plot diurnal statistics for wind speed data

  • Determine turbulence standard deviation using the Normal Turbulence model for wind data and a set of archetype wind turbine configurations

Future enhancements:

• multi-year requests

• allow use of CSV for analysis module functions

• further incorporate turbulence model statistics

Contents

• API Reference
  • requests
  • analysis
  • classes

• Installation
• Original Proposal

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page