Designing a wind farm requires satisfying many constraints. The ultimate goal is to maximize energy capture while minimizing wind loads on turbines, balance-of-plant costs, and maintaining all setback and avoidance criteria. This complicated task is most easily accomplished with assistance from specialized computer programs developed just for the wind industry. The most widely used program,…
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A company that provides energy assessments now offers data to estimate wind-energy production.