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Project „AuWiPot“ – Wind Resources in Austria and Their Energy Potential Background
The acronym "AuWiPot" stands for a project that the Climate and Energy Fund initiated in cooperation with the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The goal is to create a high-resolution wind resource map that covers all of Austria and that provides information about the wind energy potential that can be realized in Austria as well as precise modeling of local wind conditions. Technical aspects, regional planning, and cost effectiveness are all taken into consideration.
The calculated wind resources – in conjunction with the estimates of potential energy – will be made available to the public on the Internet as a "wind atlas." The wind energy potential that can be realized will be presented at the district level, and the user can vary the technical and economic factors such as system size and electricity price. This will allow economic as well as ecological forecasts to be simulated at the regional level too, and decisions can be made based on these forecasts. This meets the growing need for alternative forms of energy which are also economically feasible.
To meet the complex requirements of a project of this size, the responsible planning office, Energiewerkstatt, decided to use ProjectNetWorld®: this web-based project management software offers an easy-to-use, standardized user interface, which allows for uniform and thus efficient communication processes and relatively uncomplicated information and document management.
Management of project-related information and documents (including automatic revision) on a central platform is critical; it allows data and content from various departments to be combined and presented in a clear manner. In addition to ease of use, ProjectNetWorld® guarantees maximum cost transparency– a critical factor for funded projects such as these: the software is not purchased as a license, but rather is merely rented for the duration of use and according to the number of project employees or users.
Scientific projects increasingly rely on modern project management tools to process and organize information and work activities from various departments as part of transparent workflows.
An open, freely scalable, and cost-transparent system like ProjectNetWorld® creates the ideal conditions for efficient project work – especially in interdisciplinary research fields.
