While climate change has pushed society to develop renewable energy, this can be less reliable than conventional energy. To help with this, advances in climate science are creating unprecedented potential to provide weather forecasts and predictions over longer periods of time. But this information often presents as dense and complex datasets, making it difficult to interpret and use in day-to-day decision making. In Project Ukko, we brought artists, designers and climate scientists together to tackle the challenge of creating useful and usable climate services from thousands of datasets. Moritz Stefaner also joined the team, developing a visualisation to demonstrate the potential of advanced climate predictions in a beautiful and accessible interface.

Project Ukko presents a novel way to spot patterns in wind predictions around the world, meaning it can be used to explore future wind farm power output or locate regions likely to see extreme fluctuations in wind speed. In this way, Project Ukko supports wind farm operators and wind energy traders in making decisions like when to plan maintenance or where to invest in wind farms.