windPRO

PERFORMANCE CHECK Module

Maximize your wind farm’s performance with SCADA insights

The PERFORMANCE CHECK module in windPRO delivers a powerful suite of tools for analyzing SCADA data from wind turbines. Whether you're optimizing operations, verifying pre-construction estimates, or reducing financial risk, PERFORMANCE CHECK helps you quantify energy losses, predict future yield, and improve project profitability.

Cut AEP Uncertainty by up to 50%

Advanced SCADA Data Analysis

Import and analyze production data, wind measurements, and turbine error codes to:

  • Detect performance losses
  • Calculate operational power curves
  • Evaluate operational efficiency
  • Identify curtailments and stops
  • Improve turbine-level diagnostics

All major SCADA formats are supported, including time series, event logs, and error code files

Quantify Energy Losses by Error Codes

  • Evaluate turbine performance by comparing error-free potential production against actual production

  • Calculate losses per turbine using production data and error codes

  • Automatically generate user-defined error codes to detect curtailment, cut-out, and suboptimal operation—even without explicit SCADA tags

  • Handle overlapping, short-duration, or missing error codes with flexible tools

Visualize Performance with Powerful Graphs

  • Multiple time-series, radar, seasonal, and diurnal plots

  • Sector-based power curves for measured or expected production

  • Flexible XY plots (e.g. RPM vs. pitch angle) with color-coded data overlays

  • Diagnostic charts: MTBF, MTTR, error loss matrices

Calculate Long-Term Corrected Future Yield

  • Generate long-term corrected AEP estimates using historical production and wind index data

  • Reduce AEP uncertainty by up to 50% compared to pre-construction estimates

  • Improve financial forecasting for refinancing, sale negotiations, or purchase assessments

Wind Index Corrected Production (WCP)

Use a wind index correction method to produce a simple yet powerful long-term yield estimate:

  • Rely either on 10-min SCADA data, error logs, etc. or on monthly production and availability data.

  • Calculate and normalize production using EMD-WRF or national index datasets

  • Estimate long-term yield, and energy losses

Reduce Risk & Increase Revenue

By understanding when and why turbines underperform, PERFORMANCE CHECK helps you:

  • Increase net income by identifying recoverable energy losses

  • Support proactive maintenance decisions based on cost of errors

  • Improve bankability with accurate future yield reports

  • Refine sale and purchase prices with risk-adjusted data

  • Back up your analysis with detailed reports and visual documentation

TR10 Add-on – Certified Post-Construction Analysis

The TR10 add-on is fully integrated in PERFORMANCE CHECK and supports compliance with the German TR10 standard (rev. 0) for post-construction evaluation.

  • Evaluate site yield and quality factor for wind turbines in operation

  • Required for EEG 2017 subsidy reassessments in Germany

  • Certified by TÜV SÜD for turbines with >98% availability

  • Generates TR10-compliant reports with full documentation and traceability

Calibrate Flow Models Using Real Production Data

  • Use actual SCADA data to calibrate flow models for repowering, expansions, or quality control of pre-construction estimates.

  • Load wind data from nacelles, met masts, or mesoscale sources.

  • Perform high-resolution comparisons of measured vs. calculated production by:

    • Direction
    • Season
    • Temperature
    • Day/night cycle
    • Turbulence and air density

Tune the model to site-specific climate, increasing the accuracy of future project estimates.

windPRO

Uncover the true potential of your wind assets with the in-depth SCADA analytics of PERFORMANCE CHECK.

Take a closer look at every windPRO module

windPRO is built around a flexible, modular structure, so you can choose the tools that fit your specific project requirements. Whether you're developing a new wind farm, analyzing the performance of an existing one, or planning a repowering project, windPRO has you covered.

BASIS

BASIS

Backbone for the use of windPRO modules. Gives access to a user-friendly GUI for designing wind farm projects.


Energy Modules

METEO

Import wind measurements, then screen, flag, filter, compare, and analyze the data as part of a robust pre-processing workflow.

MODEL

Interface to WAsP/WAsP CFD and other CFD models. Wind resource mapping and wind atlas calculations.

PARK

AEP calculation including wake losses - advanced features as time varying production, RIX calculation etc.

MCP

Measure Correlate Predict - Generate long-term corrected wind statistics and time-series.

LOSS & UNCERTAINTY

Calculation of AEP in a bankable format.

OPTIMIZE

Optimize LCOE, AEP or NPV with load and noise limits.

SOLAR PV

Design and AEP of solar PV projects.

HYBRID

Combine wind and solar PV to make best use of the grid connection


Operation Modules

TR10 – Quality factor

Post-construction analysis according to German TR10 Guideline.

PERFORMANCE CHECK

Analysis of actual production data from WTGs.


Loads Modules

SITE COMPLIANCE

WTG suitability for site and layout.

LOAD RESPONSE

WTG load estimation and Lifetime Extension.


Environment Modules

SHADOW

Calculate the shadow impact (flickering).

DECIBEL

Noise calculations based on different models.

ZVI

Calculates Zones of Visual Influence or Radar Interference.

GLARE

Calculate the impact of solar glare.

IMPACT

Individual neighbor environmental impact report.

NORD2000

Advanced noise calculations.


Visualization Modules

PHOTOMONTAGE

Visualization of WTGs on photo or artificial landscape.

ANIMATION

Animated presentation of a photomontage.

SketchUp INTEGRATION

Import and export from SketchUp.


Electrical Module

eGRID

Enables design of a wind farm’s electrical network up to the point of connection, supporting radial layouts, loss calculations, and grid compliance analyses.


Economy Module

WINDBANK

Financial evaluation of WTG projects


Scripting Module

SCRIPTING

Interact with windPRO via API calls.