The Institute for Environmental Analytics

Advanced energy modelling

Our modelling activities are focussed on solving strategic challenges requiring innovative thinking and novel approaches. With expertise spanning engineering, AI, data science and meteorology, we can help you quantify the impact of weather and climate in areas such as future energy demand and supply, the transition to intelligent electricity system operations and optimising solar and wind portfolios.

Weather and climate analysis

With access to global meteorological and climate data, satellite-based observations and in-house numerical weather modelling capability, we can provide tailored weather data and technical support in areas such as solar and wind resource assessments, VRE studies, site measurement campaigns, extreme weather risk assessment and climate scale impact studies.

Digitalisation and software

Advances in digitalisation and remote sensing provide huge potential for enhancing operational performance through data mining and analysis. We are experts in developing custom software tools that transform large, complex data streams into valuable and accessible insights to gain efficiencies, reduce risks, improve asset performance and inform strategic thinking.

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Products

Our commercial software product, EnergyMetric, combines precision meteorological data with powerful analytics for assessing variable energy production from solar and wind projects. EnergyMetric saves you time and provides rigorous analysis when calculating energy yields, undertaking site assessments or optimising solar and wind portfolios.

EnergyMetric is cutting-edge SaaS software to support the energy transition. From utility-scale solar and wind projects through to complex hybrid portfolios and national roadmaps, EnergyMetric supports accurate generation planning and assessment of renewable energy developments.

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Project Stories

Visualising wind and flood hazards in Europe

The UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI) is a national centre established to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions.

The IEA is part of CGFI and leads on ensuring the…

Monitoring weather and climate risks to electricity networks

Extreme weather events are causing greater uncertainty to infrastructure owners and operators. Physical damage to assets as well as disruption to services and field operations lead to higher O&M costs and potential penalties for regulated utilities. On top of this, climate…

Reducing energy costs in cement manufacture

This project was undertaken for Hanson UK to examine the potential for dynamic load shifting in order to minimise electricity costs and/or CO2 emissions. The overall objective was to identify when energy-intensive processes (such as cement milling) could be shifted to off-peak…

Analysing climate impacts on infrastructure

A drive towards sustainable and future-proofing infrastructure means that climate change is beginning to be embedded into the standards that drive the design and maintenance of industries such as transport, buildings and power distribution networks. Alongside this drive for…

Modelling methane gas emissions using machine learning

The re-development of former landfill sites requires a careful risk assessment of the ground gases that are released to ensure they do not form a hazard to later occupants. Our client deploys sensors that monitor emissions of landfill gases including methane, carbon monoxide,…

Forecasting fog using data analytics

Fog poses a life-threatening challenge to the travelling public. To help address this problem, we investigated the feasibility of developing fog prediction software to provide early warning alerts to Highway’s England to help improve road safety and save the capital costs…

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News

Providing meteorological data for novel wind turbine analysis

We recently partnered with clean tech start-up Ilosta to provide bespoke meteorological data and weather consultancy in support of the testing of their new wind turbine blade analysis software, ‘Crack Map’. The innovative software leverages a range of data sources and…

Developing an IaC solution for new remote monitoring platform

Software engineers at the IEA recently provided technical consultancy to UK-based Dyna-mo Instruments to develop an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution to deploy their new SaaS-based remote monitoring software into AWS.

The innovative new platform will enable…

Oman workshop on results of rainfall modelling project

IEA weather and climate experts, Dr. Maria Noguer and Dr. Ben Lloyd-Hughes, were recently in Muscat, Oman to present the results of a statistical analysis project examining the outcome of Oman’s national rainfall enhancement programme between 2019-2022 at a workshop organised…