Towards high resolution, validated and open global wind power assessments
Abstract
Wind power is expected to play a crucial role in future net-zero energy systems, but wind power simulations to support deployment strategies vary drastically in their results, hindering reliable design decisions. Therefore, we present a transparent, open source, validated and evaluated, global wind power simulation tool ETHOS.RESKit.Wind with high spatial resolution and customizable designs for both onshore and offshore wind turbines. The tool provides a comprehensive validation and calibration procedure using over 16 million global measurements from metrerological masts and wind turbine sites. We achieve a global average capacity factor mean error of 0.006 and Pearson correlation of 0.865. In addition, we evaluate its performance against several aggregated and statistical sources of wind power generation. The release of ETHOS.RESKit.Wind is a step towards a fully open source and open data approach to accurate wind power modeling by incorporating the most comprehensive simulation advances in one model.
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@article{arxiv.2501.07937,
title = {Towards high resolution, validated and open global wind power assessments},
author = {Edgar Ubaldo Peña-Sánchez and Philipp Dunkel and Christoph Winkler and Heidi Heinrichs and Florian Prinz and Jann Weinand and Rachel Maier and Sebastian Dickler and Shuying Chen and Katharina Gruber and Theresa Klütz and Jochen Linßen and Detlef Stolten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07937},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Edgar Ubaldo Pe\~na-S\'anchez, Philipp Dunkel and Christoph Winkler contributed euqally to the paper. Main article: 20 pages, 7 figures; supplementary material: 20 pages, 10 figures. This version includes minor updates: Fix appearance of toolname in online abstract. Fix figure numbering in appendix