Satellite Application and Analytics for Renewables Integration (SAARI)

Austin Consultants（AC）是一家软件和硬件工程设计、开发、集成和测试解决方案的中小型企业，从2005年的两人工程团队成长为英国最高认证的LabVIEW集成公司。AC在能源和公用事业行业工作过，已经确定了一个原型卫星应用和可再生能源集成分析（SAARI），该原型卫星应用和分析使用高分辨率卫星地球观测图像处理和机器学习技术来估计可再生能源（RE）资产上的风速和方向，云光学厚度和云入口/出口模式。随着全球新增风能和太阳能发电能力的增加，使用这些技术的发电量将从2015年的5%上升到2040年的30%（BNEF，2016）。这就需要改进预测技术，以便将可再生能源最佳地纳入能源系统和市场。SAARI解锁了低成本和可扩展的可再生能源产量预测分析，为能源基础设施系统增加了智能。这项可行性研究测试了SAARI的技术和商业潜力，应用尖端技术来提高准确性，可扩展性，用户体验并降低访问可再生能源数据分析的成本。

Austin Consultants (AC) are a software and hardware engineering design, development, integration and test solution SME, having grown from a two-man engineering team back in 2005 to the highest certified LabVIEW integration house in the UK. Having worked across the energy and utilities industry, AC have identified a prototype Satellite Application and Analytics for Renewables Integration (SAARI) that estimates wind speed and direction, cloud optical thickness and cloud entrance/exit patterns over Renewable Energy (RE) assets using high-resolution satellite earth observtion image processing and machine learning techniques. As new wind and solar capacity is added worldwide, generation using these technologies rises from 5% in 2015 to 30% of the global total by 2040 (BNEF, 2016). This requires improved forecast techniques for the optimal integration of RE into energy systems and markets. SAARI unlocks the access to low cost and scalable RE yield prediction analytics, adding intelligence to energy infrastructure systems. This feasibility study tests the technical and commercial potential of SAARI, applying cutting edge technology to improve the accuracy, scalability, user experience and reduce the costs of accessing RE data analytics.