Turbine Selection
Maximize your return
Smarter turbine planning with windPRO
Choosing the wrong turbine can drastically reduce a project's energy yield and financial performance. Developers must match turbine specifications to wind conditions and site characteristics, all while designing a layout that avoids wake losses, meets environmental constraints, and complies with regulations.
Face your challenge with the right tool
windPRO solves key challenges
Maximize performance
windPRO helps you select the optimal turbine configuration—model, positioning and hub height—based on site-specific wind conditions, ensuring maximum energy yield and avoiding underperformance.
Minimize wake losses and downtime
with wake modelling and micro-siting tools, windPRO enables turbine placement to reduce turbulence, increase efficiency, and limit operational disruptions.
Check suitability
With the SITE COMPLIANCE module, you can check the suitability of different turbine types to the local conditions, based on the IEC61400-1 standard.
Estimate the lifetime of your turbine
Evaluate fatigue on key components to estimate operational lifetime.
Your challenge, windPRO's job
windPRO features for this use case
What it does: Access more than a thousand of commercial turbine models with full power curves.
Value for you: Enables quick and easy access to crucial information.
What it does: Free and easy access to a global dataset, with 250m resolution, containing wind resource and siting parameters.
Value for you: Quickly assess the preliminary energy potential and site suitability before measurement campaigns begin. Gain early insight into local conditions and make informed siting decisions from day one.
What it does: Compare different turbine types and layouts, side by side.
Value it gives you: Supports transparent design decisions and improves stakeholder alignment.
What it does: Tailor turbine layout to your project goals—maximize AEP, minimize LCOE, or boost NPV, while respecting the required lifetime of the turbines.
Value for you: Create more efficient, cost-effective, and profitable layouts. Better designs lead to better bankability and stronger investor confidence.
What it does: Runs key site suitability checks based on the IEC 61400-1 standard, using your actual layout and local wind conditions.
Value for you: Quickly verify whether each turbine model is compatible with site-specific conditions—helping you avoid costly mismatches.
What it does: Evaluate and compare site-specific with design loads to ensure layout density doesn’t compromise equipment lifetime. Analyse wake-induced turbulence and fatigue loads.
Value for you: Reduce technical risks and improve long-term project durability. Confidently design layouts that balance performance with turbine lifespan.
What it does: Allows the use of different flow models (WAsP, WAsP Engineering, WAsP CFD, and others through .flowres files) for the Site Suitability checks.
Value for you: Easy use of industry standard flow models.
The modules you need
Key modules for this use case
PARK
Energy calculations.
SITE COMPLIANCE
Include lifetime constraints in optimization.
LOAD RESPONSE
Evaluate if the loads are acceptable for the site and layout conditions. Perform lifetime analysis.
MODEL
(+WAsP bundle license)
Resource mapping and connecting with WAsP - Industry standard flow modelling.
MCP (opt.)
Long term correct measured wind data.
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- BASIS
- EYA
- Energy Optimize
- Site Compliance
