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About WindFarmDesigns
The purpose of our WindFarmDesigns products is to increase energy yield in wind farm projects world wide subject to load constraints. Improving the layout is probably the most cost-effective way of improving project profitability for developers, and reducing Cost of Energy for turbine suppliers. A 2–4% increase in energy yield corresponds to an equivalent increase in project profitability, as well as reduced CO₂ emissions assuming wind power replaces fossil generation.
WFD ParkOptimizer
WFD ParkOptimizer has been developed since 2008 with a special focus on wind farms in complex terrain:
IEC Maps of project areas: since 2008, WFD ParkOptimizer has provided IEC compliant maps of turbulence, flow inclination, extreme wind and terrain for wind farm projects by post-processing CFD flow results. This feature quantifies the quality aspects of wind conditions, and is useful at screening stages, as well as in the design of IEC compliant layouts.
Optimized, IEC compliant layouts: IEC compliance including effective turbulence is included as a constraint in the optimization. This is a unique feature only provided by WindFarmDesigns.
Optimal project size: ParkOptimizer provides a whole range of optimized layouts, used to determine optimal project size with respect to profitability.
Extract IEC compliance reports: Report the site suitability of the resulting layout.
WFD API
WFD API contains the core algorithms of WindFarmDesigns.
Usage: The WFD API can be used in 3rd party software, through the REST API as a web service or as an executable module on a local server. Instead of adding yet another tool, you can integrate the API into your existing workflow. WFD ParkOptimizer and WFD Web both use the API for layout optimization. Our WFD API is available as a web API and as a Python library.
Future work: Our focus is to specialise in layout optimization and related features. We have included IEC compliance, and are considering noise constraints and infrastructure costs. We are also working towards replacing IEC criteria with load models for load compliance.
Web application
Our WFD web application allows you to quickly obtain layouts without installing any software.
Usage: Sometimes you need an initial, realistic layout to estimate energy production and project size. By uploading wrg files, planning area and turbine data, you can run the optimizations and download optimized layouts. With more detailed CFD flow models and wind data, WFD Web can provide IEC compliant layout optimizations as well.