Aeolus

Inspiration: Our inspiration for this project was our personal curiosity. We always saw wind turbines on road trips and wondered why there were in certain places such as open fields and no where else. Based on this, we wanted to learn the reason behind it while tackling a major issue in today’s society.

What it does Aeolus ranks spots across Canada for building wind turbines 0 to a 100, scoring wind, terrain, and government support. A place isn't good just because it's windy since it has to be buildable and backed by the province.

How we built it Aeolus is essentially a map based app built using programs such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It is deployed on Vercel with the aim of pulling a full year of real hourly wind and elevation data for each site from Open Meteo’s ERA5 database. Then we researched government support scores andby hand from public scores like the Canada Energy regulator, with every number cited in the app.

Challenges we ran into Sourcing comparable government data across 13 provinces was very rough and took us some time to learn how to implement era 5 into the code

Accomplishments we are proud of We are proud of coming to our first hackathon and building a full software project that can solve a real world problem

What we learned: After pursuing this project, we as a team have solved our curiosity and understood that there is a complete science behind why and where a turbine is placed. For example the major reason is wind speed, by utilizing the cube law we can understand that power generation significantly increases as the wind speed increases due to the wind speed being cubed. Establishing high wind speed areas more suitable for site development.

Accomplishments we are proud of We are proud of coming to our first hackathon and building a full software project that can solve a real world problem.

Built With

• css
• era5
• gemini-api
• html
• javascript
• open-meteo