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Turbine Selection

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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.

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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. 

Predict the lifetime of your turbine

Evaluate fatigue on key components to estimate operational lifetime.

Your challenge, windPRO's job

Challenge
How windPRO supports you
Select a turbine that matches site-specific wind and design conditions.
Use the IEC 61400-1 checks in the SITE COMPLIANCE module to select a turbine model with a suitable class.
Assess long-term turbine durability and integrate it into your financial plan.
Estimate fatigue loads and expected component lifetimes with the LOADS module and use this data to refine OPEX and project cash flow.
Choosing the best turbine model for the site is unclear and complex
With windPRO you can use local wind and terrain conditions to filter out unsuitable turbine models and compare the energy yield (AEP) of the remaining options, enabling confident selection.
Some turbines perform well on paper but underdeliver at higher altitudes or in turbulent conditions.
Factor in turbulence intensity, shear, and complex flow with windPRO to generate site-specific estimates.
It's hard to compare different turbine configurations and layout strategies effectively.
windPRO enables side-by-side layout comparisons using different turbine models, hub heights, and spacing approaches.
Overdesigning wastes space, while under designing misses energy potential.
windPRO helps strike the right balance between land use, turbine interactions, energy yield, turbine lifetime and costs.

windPRO features for this use case

Turbine database with detailed specs

What it does: Access more than a thousand of commercial turbine models with full power curves.

Value for you: Enables quick, accurate comparisons and informed selection.

Global of Atlas of Siting Parameters (GASP)

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. 

Multi-scenario comparison tools (OPTIMIZE)

What it does: Compare different turbine types and layouts, side by side. 

Value it gives you: Supports transparent design decisions and improves stakeholder alignment.

Automatically generate optimal layouts (OPTIMIZE)

What it does: Using wind flow and constraints.

Value for you: Saves time and delivers high-performance, buildable designs.

Turbine suitability (SITE COMPLIANCE)

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. 

Turbine loading evaluation (SITE COMPLIANCE/LOADS)

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. 

Integration with different flow models (MODEL/SITE COMPLIANCE)

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

BASIS

Project, Maps and GIS data management. 

METEO

Climate data handling. Access to online wind data.

OPTIMIZE

Easy comparison between different turbine types.

 

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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