Requirements for certification

The level required for passing the exam has been set so high that the certified user on his/her own is able to use WAsP correctly to produce the best possible estimate of the wind resource.

As a minimum, passing the exam requires several months of practical experience in using WAsP in addition to participation in a WAsP course. This is so because the exam involves an individual application of WAsP to a hypothetical wind farm project, with only limited time to execute the WAsP analysis - an exercise somewhat more requiring than the WAsP Course case study.

Thus one cannot expect to be able to pass the examination on basis of a WAsP course alone – additional months of practical experience before or after the course is also necessary to have a fair chance of passing.

The listing of items below, which must be mastered, is meant as an indication of the level sought and should not be taken as exhaustive.

A more detailed list of requirements is given HERE.

Data

• quality control
• climatological representativity
• analysis

Orography

• input of orography
• quality control
• representativity
• analysis for complex terrain issues

Roughness

• assignment of roughness values
• input of roughness
• quality control
• representativity
• check for consistency

Wind atlas analysis

• validation and error estimation
• climatological and geographical representativity

Wind resource calculation

• applicability of wind atlas
• calculation of power production including wake effects
• error estimation
• quality control and applicability of turbine power- and thrust curves
• input of wind farm layout

WAsP usage

• correct hierarchy
• over-all of check of consistency of input data

Language

As the exam takes place in English a reasonable high level of English is required.