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AWS Truewind
AWS Truewind is a renewable energy consulting company specializing in atmospheric modeling and wind farm siting. Beyond initial resource modeling and siting, AWS Truewind provides a wide variety of service that support the complete renewable energy project lifecycle. These include resource mapping, energy assessment, project engineering, due diligence, performance evaluation, and power production forecasting. The company also provides similar services for project development.

The company’s software products include openWind®, eWind®, SiteWind®, windNavigator®, MesoMap® and windTrends. AWS Truewind's mission is to be a world leader providing renewable energy consulting services to developers, investors, and governmental and institutional clients. AWS Truewind has created wind maps for over 60 countries. The company is located in Albany, NY.

History
AWS Truewind was started in 1981 under the name Associated Weather Services. Initially, the company, comprised of research meteorologists from New York State University at Albany, provided atmospheric field measurements, air quality studies, forensic meteorology for law suits and insurance claims, and solar and wind energy feasibility studies. The company became a subsidiary of W.S. Flemming & Associates, an energy consulting firm, in 1983 which resulted in its incorporation under the name Associated Weather Services, Inc. AWS gained its first substantial clients in the years to follow with their consulting efforts chiefly surrounding Niagara Mohawk, presently know as National Grid. Due to the large scale of business from Niagara Mohawk and the US Environmental Protection Agency, founders of the company, Bruce Bailey and Ron Stewart became 50-50 partners after W.S. Flemming & Associates chose to sell AWS in 1985. Bailey purchased Stewart’s take in the company in 1990 resulting in complete ownership. The same year, AWS underwent a name change to AWS Scientific to communicate that the company satisfied not only weather and technology needs, but also engineering services related to solar, wind energy project development, and air quality research.

In 1997, AWS Scientific, Brower & Company, and MESO Inc. joined forces to form a new, equal ownership company: Truewind Solutions. This move pushed AWS Scientific into the wind power industry and initiated the development of the advanced wind mapping and forecasting applications the company offers today. In 2004, the two companies AWS Scientific and Truewind Solutions consolidated to form AWS Truewind LLC. In 2007, AWS Truewind entered into a joint venture called “Meteosim Truewind, S.L.” with Barcelona Spain based Meteosim, S.L.