Wind Energy Resources Potentials in Bangladesh :
Wind
speed measurement errors are commonly downwardly biased due to
mechanical wear and physical obstruction effects. The techniques
proposed in SWERA involve the use of upper air data sets from
weather balloons and radiosondes that are much less prone to
measurement errors. The mapped information proposed in SWERA is high
resolution and much more valuable than interpolations of wind speed
made between measurement sites. The SWERA products will be much more
reliable, cover a wider area in detail, and will provide a much
higher value than the existing meteorological statistics.
High-resolution (1-km) annual average wind resource maps and GIS
data sets for Bangladesh will be made available. Accuracy of the
resource values is expected to be approximately 10% in wind speed
and 20% in wind power at more than 80% of locations. The output data
will be based on NREL’s Wind Resource Assessment and Mapping System
(WRAMS) which uses, as input, analyses of existing surface and
upper-air meteorological data sets covering many years of record.
Other outputs will include elevation maps at the same spatial
resolution (1-km) and scale of the wind resource maps, and maps
showing the locations where measurement data were available for
analysis. 
Risø will carry out an extended WAsP course for RERC staffs. The course will include training in the theory behind resource modeling and in the program itself. A case study will be carried out and the last day will be used in training the participants in doing the evaluation task.
It is expected that at the end of the project Bangladesh will have:
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access to high-resolution wind resource maps and databases that will support planning for the deployment of a large range of wind technologies, from large utility -scale to small off- grid applications, water pumping, etc.
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the capacity to use the wind data in an effective manner to facilitate wind technology investment.
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an understanding how the mapped resource data was developed
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-Bangladesh
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