Empowering renewables with better science
Veer is a consultancy committed to advanced renewable energy modeling and analysis that optimizes asset performance.
We harness advanced weather modelling, data science, and machine learning to provide our clients with exceptional analysis and solutions with our suite of digital products and core services.
Accurate renewable energy modeling requires a deep understanding of how complex atmospheric dynamics drive power production. Current industry-standard methods, however, often overlook and oversimplify these variables with dated methods.
For over 15 years, Veer Renewables has been at the forefront of progressive research, working extensively with asset owners, research labs, and consultants to leverage modern scientific methods, improve accuracy, and lower uncertainty.
Putting the power in your hands for efficient, timely intelligence
Veer does data science differently. Our subscription based digital products are streamlined, simple-to-use interfaces that can run multiple simulations quickly and economically. We also conduct detailed studies and analyses bespoke to your project’s needs.
A quick summary of how we help level-up your portfolio with our core services:
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You need fast, actionable intelligence. We’re here to help.
When consulting services take time and get expensive, there is veerEarth. Between the time you solicit the work to receive the final report, months may have gone by. In this rapidly moving industry with tight timelines and tight margins, that can be a problem.
That’s why we’re doing things a little differently. Many consulting services can be stripped down and offered directly to stakeholders as a data product. This is the vision of veerEarth, our new interactive web interface, where clients will increasingly be able to access products ranging from resource maps and timeseries, portfolio optimization algorithms, and more.
Fast, cost-effective, and efficient. That’s the philosophy behind veerEarth. Get started at earth.veer.eco
Our new web interface, veerEarth, is your new portal to our growing list of products. Visit at earth.veer.eco.
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The wind landscape is changing. So should your wake estimates.
Our flagship product, WakeMap, represents a paradigm shift in modeling wind farm wakes. Utilizing the latest advancements in numerical weather modeling and validated at a growing list of wind farm locations, WakeMap accurately quantifies the impacts of farm-to-farm (or cluster) wakes, far beyond the boundaries of typical engineering wake models.
Design, submit, and download your own custom simulations from our veerEarth interface at earth.veer.eco, and learn more about our WakeMap product here
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Your portfolio may be performing better than you think.
The key to any solid asset portfolio is diversity, especially in renewables. From varying global solar and wind resources to vastly different grid operating conditions, to unique technologies and their performances, no two renewable assets are the same. The key, however, is quantifying that diversity in the financial benefit it serves.
That’s where our Asset Diversity Factor comes in. Leveraging advanced statistical and meteorological tools, we unravel the web of correlations that link your renewable assets, and how each of them --- existing or proposed --- are working for or against your bottom line: maximizing portfolio production and revenue and minimizing uncertainty.
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No black box here. We put performance assessment code in your hands.
One reason the industry is slow to adopt new methods is a lack of transparency. Our philosophy at Veer is that if better science and methods are made more available, that pushes the industry forward and everyone benefits. That’s why we developed EmpowerOps, an arrangement where we work with owner/operators to develop custom operational performance analysis code for their assets and portfolios, and then deliver that code for integration into the client’s internal processes
Click here to learn more about how Veer is upending the typical consultant business model of proprietary methods.
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Knowing where (and where not) to put your next renewable project has never been more important.
By now, we all know where the windiest and sunniest spots are in the world. That’s no secret. But there’s a growing nuance here. How are those resources changing by season, by time of day, and how does that integrate with power markets and grid integration? Is the resource increasing or decreasing over time, such as from growing wake losses in increasingly densely populated wind energy clusters?
We specialize in exhaustive characterization and analysis of renewable resources,and are here to help you scope out your next project site. Reach out to learn more.
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You’ve found your site. Now, how much is it really going to produce?
Let’s face it, the industry has a history of overestimating energy production from wind and solar projects. Much of that is rooted in industry standard methods that are slow to evolve to a rapidly changing renewable energy landscape. From the wind profile power law to linear regression, we remain largely tethered to dated atmospheric and data science that are increasingly outdated.
We do things differently here. Leveraging advanced weather models and data science, with a solid foundation in timeseries-based analyses, we accurately characterize the resource and energy potential of your next project and set you up for operational success without the surprises.
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You can’t get to where you're going if you do not know where you’ve been
Once your project is operational, you want to know how it’s doing. Is it producing as expected and, if not, where are the pain points? Is the resource lower than estimated, or are the turbines or arrays underperforming? And if so, what is the root cause?
These analyses are our bread and butter. Leveraging 15 years of working with operational data, from monthly operating reports to 1-second frequency SCADA data, we know how to surgically dissect and diagnose asset performance and get you the actionable intelligence needed to make improvements. description
Future-proof your investments with modern + sophisticated scientific forecasting methods.
We work across the renewable energy sector with clients ranging world-class research institutes to front-line owner/operators.
Case Studies
WakeMap: Getting to the root of wind farm underperformance and raising investor confidence.
Veer was approached by a client with a portfolio of wind energy projects that were underperforming relative to their pre-construction energy production estimates that varied between X%-Y%. The client’s main objective was to:
Improve internal energy estimate processes by identifying the source of underperformance.
Set up a system that would improve energy estimate capabilities in the future.
Improve the company’s financial performance through evidence-based investigation.
Raise and maintain investor confidence for future renewable energy developments.
Veer was provided access to the relevant data for this analysis and noticed immediately that the most egregious underperforming projects were all cases where the wind farm had operated free of neighbours for a period and then had upwind neighbours installed, ranging from 5 to 30km upwind.
Conventional wake loss tools used by the client indicated that wake impacts from neighbours was zero. Veer deployed WakeMap to simulate different scenarios for each project, one where the neighbours didn’t exist, and one where they did. From that, we can calculate wake losses, and using the fulsome dataset, we documented the decreased wind resource arising from neighbor wake impacts, and validated WakeMap findings at several wind farm locations.
Our findings and where we landed
Incorporating external wake losses caused by neighbouring wind farm developments reduced the client’s portfolio-wide energy estimate bias significantly—from approximately 8% to 4%. The impact of external wakes varied across individual sites, ranging from negligible (0%) to substantial (up to 8%) in densely developed regions. Leveraging this insight, the client enhanced their internal energy estimation processes and subscribed to WakeMap to refine external wake loss measurements across their portfolio. WakeMap proved to be a quick, efficient, and cost-effective solution for running in-house simulations, enabling confident and timely decision-making—critical for maintaining and resolving issues within their projects. As a scientifically grounded platform, WakeMap has become an invaluable tool in supporting the client’s success and their commitment to diversifying renewable energy sources.
Asset Diversity Factor:
The cornerstone of your asset valuation toolkit.
Our client in the U.S. renewable energy sector was looking to expand their asset portfolio. With a range of wind and solar assets available to acquire, they were seeking advice and analysis on which assets were the most attractive, and which would best integrate into their portfolio. Initially, the objective sought to evaluate project performance (i.e., annual energy production), overlooking the value of adding new assets to their existing fleet.
We were tasked first to quantify the long-term annual energy production of several assets using operational performance data, leveraging our Asset Diversity Factor analysis to quantify how each potential new asset would help to reduce total portfolio energy production uncertainty.
We performed our Asset Diversity Factor analysis that looked at the client’s existing portfolio and were able to quantify the portfolio benefit in terms of electricity production and revenue arising from the diversity of their existing assets. Further, we repeated the analysis, each time introducing each of the potential new assets into the portfolio. By comparing the additional benefit resulting from each addition, we could quantify which new asset would be the most valuable to add.
The result was a comprehensive and detailed analysis delivering a ranking of portfolio benefit value from each potential asset. Informed by these results, the client used the information to update their financial models for their asset purchase.
