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Renewable Energy and Transportation
Besides improving conventional weather forecasting, the National Mesonet has also emerged as a key tool to aid the development of the domestic renewable energy industry and improve the efficiency of the nation’s transportation network. Significant improvement in short-term wind forecasts with higher resolution make integration of renewable wind energy into the power grid practical — wind farms that lack such data can miss out on billions of dollars in unrealized operating efficiencies. In aviation, some two-thirds of the annual impact of severe weather delays ($19 billion) could be mitigated with better weather information. On the ground, National Mesonet road weather and vehicle-mounted mobile weather sensors also provide extremely high resolution observations in real time, improving safety on our nation’s increasingly crowded highways.
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Renewable Energy and Transportation
Besides improving conventional weather forecasting, the National Mesonet has also emerged as a key tool to aid the development of the domestic renewable energy industry and improve the efficiency of the nation’s transportation network. Significant improvement in short-term wind forecasts with higher resolution make integration of renewable wind energy into the power grid practical — wind farms that lack such data can miss out on billions of dollars in unrealized operating efficiencies. In aviation, some two-thirds of the annual impact of severe weather delays ($19 billion) could be mitigated with better weather information. On the ground, National Mesonet road weather and vehicle-mounted mobile weather sensors also provide extremely high resolution observations in real time, improving safety on our nation’s increasingly crowded highways.