Windpower Engineering & Development

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Most recent posts
    • News
    • Featured
  • Resources
    • Digital issues
    • Podcasts
    • Suppliers
    • Webinars
    • Events
  • Videos
  • 2025 Leadership
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
  • Magazine
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe

Wind-farm-design software refines uncertainty and loss estimates

By Paul Dvorak | December 16, 2011

OpenWind Enterprise software is wind-farm design and optimization software based on the open source version of openWind.

A renewable-energy-consulting and information firm has released openWind Enterprise 1.3, software that further refines the wind farm design process with improved loss and uncertainty estimates. In addition to an ability to optimize for cost of energy and assess deep array impacts, current Enterprise users will receive Time-Series Energy Capture and Effective Turbulence Intensity upgrades, along with a pilot of Time-Scheduling of Turbines. These features help developers trim time off projects and meet requirements of utilities and turbine manufacturers. “This is just the first stage of an ongoing rollout of new features aimed at addressing the real needs of wind farm design,” said Nick Robinson, Director of openWind. “This new release lets clients gain more insight in the design phase of their wind farm.” A few features include:

Effective turbulence intensity provides a measure of fatigue loading on each turbine due to ambient and wake-induced turbulence. Users can calculate effective turbulence values according to the latest amendment to IEC614000-1 (ed. 3), and specify how wakes are modeled.

Times-series energy capture lets users assess diurnal and seasonal impacts of turbulence intensity and air density as well as temperature variance shutdown losses. By inserting the time-element back into the energy capture analysis, users more easily see the effects of summer and winter differences as well as different daytime and nighttime stability regimes.

Time scheduling of turbines lets users switch off individual turbines by time of day or year and switch individual turbines to a different power curve. This is particularly useful when attempting to quantify the impact of grid curtailment. For example, switching to low-noise power curves at night to meet local regulations or switching off a turbine for specific times of day when shadow flicker may be a problem.

“The addition of Time-Series Energy Capture will improve modeling accuracy,” said Erik Hale, Wind Assessment Manager, enXco.

OpenWind Enterprise software is wind-farm design and optimization software based on the open source version of openWind. There are over 3,500 users of the free community version of openWind. The openWind Enterprise version was developed for wind developers who need more powerful features, an industry-leading geographical information systems (GIS) interface, the ability to optimize for cost of energy, assess deep array impacts, and define and analyze strategies for managed shut-down of turbines.

AWS Truepower Inc.
http://www.awstruepower.com/openwind_ad1211/


Filed Under: News, Software

 

About The Author

Paul Dvorak

Comments

  1. Hennie Cronje says

    January 25, 2012 at 2:10 am

    Hi there

    I am a Renewable Energy Consultant in South Africa. I am very much interested in the wind farm design software. Please send me more info.

    Regards

    Hennie Cronje

    • Kathleen Zipp says

      January 31, 2012 at 10:19 am

      Hi Hennie I would contact AWS Truepower. Let me know if you need further assistance.

    • Kathleen Zipp says

      January 31, 2012 at 10:28 am

      This may also be helpful https://www.windpowerengineering.com/design/wind-power-software/software-101/

  2. Cosmas L.M. Masawe says

    December 18, 2011 at 3:34 am

    Kindly, How can I be a recepient or a contributor to “Wind Engineering”.
    Regards,
    Cosmas LM Masawe (MSc. Eng; P.E.)

    • Kathleen Zipp says

      December 19, 2011 at 4:34 pm

      Hi Cosmas. You can contact me at kzipp@wtwhmedia.com or my editor Paul Dvorak pdvorak@wtwhmedia.com and we can discuss.

Related Articles Read More >

US government allows Empire Wind offshore project to resume construction
Richardson Electronics to deliver pitch energy modules to TransAlta wind fleets
Equinor halts work on Empire Wind offshore project after federal government order
ARESCA wants input on offshore wind standards

Podcasts

Wind Spotlight: Looking back at a year of Thrive with ZF Wind Power
See More >

Windpower Engineering & Development Digital Edition

Digital Edition

Browse the most current issue of Windpower Engineering & Development and back issues in an easy to use high quality format. Clip, share and download with the leading wind power engineering magazine today.

Windpower Engineering & Development
  • Wind Articles
  • Solar Power World
  • Subscribe to Windpower Engineering
  • About Us/Contact Us

Copyright © 2025 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising

Search Windpower Engineering & Development

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Most recent posts
    • News
    • Featured
  • Resources
    • Digital issues
    • Podcasts
    • Suppliers
    • Webinars
    • Events
  • Videos
  • 2025 Leadership
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
  • Magazine
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe