This page shows daily plots of forecast grid data for onshore wind energy in Belgium, year 2016. We use quarter hour forecast data from Elia, which is corrected with up-scaled measurement data for the monitored capacity. The monitored capacity can deviate from the installed capacity; and it can change over time. Therefore values normalized to kWh/day per kWpeak, and also hourly fluctuations are provided. In general grid forecast data is more accurate than weather re-analysis from satellite data.

onshore	2016	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Monitored capacity (GWpeak)	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25	1.25
Cumulative energy (GWh)	2240	325	626	850	1031	1172	1289	1420	1576	1703	1838	2059	2240
Monthly energy (GWh)	2240	325	302	224	180	141	117	131	156	127	135	220	181
Normalized cumulative sum (kWh/kWpeak)	1794	260	502	681	825	938	1032	1137	1262	1364	1472	1649	1794
Normalized monthly energy (kWh/kWpeak)	1794	260	242	179	145	113	94.0	105	125	102	108	176	145
Normalized cumulative distribution [%]	100 %	14.5 %	28.0 %	38.0 %	46.0 %	52.3 %	57.6 %	63.4 %	70.4 %	76.1 %	82.1 %	91.9 %	100 %
Normalized monthly distribution [%]	100 %	14.5 %	13.5 %	9.98 %	8.06 %	6.3 %	5.24 %	5.84 %	6.98 %	5.68 %	6.03 %	9.83 %	8.09 %
Capacity factor [%]	20.4 %	35.0 %	34.7 %	24.1 %	20.1 %	15.2 %	13.1 %	14.1 %	16.8 %	14.1 %	14.5 %	24.5 %	19.5 %

Average hourly data:
The plots below show hourly data, normalized to kiloWatt per installed capacity expressed in kiloWatt peak. The Elia grid data contains four data points per hour, these are averaged to represent a single hour on the plot. So the hour 14 combines data points from 14:00, 14:15, 14:30 and 14:45 for example. In the legend we display the avarage daily generated energy in kWhpeak per month. The maximum achievable energy per day is 24 kWh per kWpeak of installed capacity, since there are 24 hours in a day. Fluctuations are summarized with boxplots for the entire year and per month.

Acknowledgement: many thanks to Elia for open access to onshore wind grid data of Belgium at www.elia.be/en/grid-data. This data is licensed under the Elia Open Data License, which uses the CC BY-4.0 public license, and is governed by Belgian law.

User guide: most of the figures on this page are dynamic boxplots. A png image can be downloaded with the pop-up window at the right upper side. These functions require that javascript is enabled. Boxplots are explained here.