The Nau Sustainable Energy Solutions is dedicated to providing Arizona with the highest of quality research in wind energy throughout Arizona. In order to Supply Arizonans with effective and thorough results, every 10 to 50 meter tower, highlighted on the Arizona Wind Map, contains an anemometer which is used to accurately measure the wind speeds of the State Land Wind Assessment wind sites. The wind data repository provides a systematic overview of each wind site, full access to sumulative and yearly WindPro reports, photos and maps fo the sites, where available, and text file data.

A raw data electronic chip, the device inside the anemometer to collect the data, typically consists of eight channels which acquire the wind speed, standard deviation and wind vane. Every three months, the data chips are collected from SES’s State Land Wind Assessment sites to be imputed in a corresponding file unique to that site.  The text file data, calculated by the raw data, is used as a more effective way to categorize and organize the data compiled from the raw data chips. The text files,  provided in the data repository, present an organized spreadsheet, very similar to Microsoft Excel, including: a list of the raw data channels, the date and time the wind data was measured, wind speed, standard deviation and wind vane. Generally speaking, the average wind speed and standard deviation with the desired data are stored in channels one and two, depending on the height of the tower, with a wind vain typically occurring in channel seven.

WindPro 2.5 is a very effective program used by SES to accurately compile the results from the text file data into a well laid out, user friendly report.  The visual aspect of WindPro 2.5 is very efficiently laid out and the use of color to represent the graphs is very aesthetically pleasing and professional .The data behind the WindPro reports is represented cumulative or yearly. The results of data provide the Sustainable Energy Solutions as an indicator of whether or not the location of the site is suitable for a wind power plant. Although the majority of the towers are 10 or 30 meters, the attached Arizona Wind Map provides an estimate of the wind speed one would expect under normal conditions at 50 meters. A typical WindPro report would include:

• Statistics for time series
• Time series overview graph
• Time series detailed graph
• Table data
• Table data overview graph
• Table data detailed graph
• Table data sectorwise turbulence graph
• Weibull data overview