Introduces industry professionals to the principles of wind farm design, giving a detailed overview of the design process. Starting from the principles of wind flow, turbulence, wake effects, and ending with optimised energy production and environmental analysis. (One day).Investment in an understanding of wind farm design can reduce timelines and costs at the development stages of a project. The course introduces the GH WindFarmer software as a leading tool and attendees will receive a demonstration copy for follow up use.

Who should attend?

Developers, engineers and planners wishing to gain a clear understanding of practical wind farm design.

Course Outline

•Introduction
•Principles of wind flow
•Wind speed monitoring
•Analysis and interpretation of wind speed data
•Uses of WAsP with GH WindFarmer
•Wake models and wake model verification
•Calculation of predicted wind farm output
•GH WindFarmer environmental analysis
•Optimising wind farm layout
•Further features and conclusions