AWS Truepower has released an upgrade to its openWind Enterprise wind project design and optimisation software.
Among other features, the new edition incorporates the latest IEC recommendations on effects of turbulence and shear on turbine output; the ability to use wind profiles to 200 m from sodar, lidar, and tall towers; and expanded environmental analysis including time-series modeling of shadow flicker and improved noise modeling and reporting. New openWind Enterprise Features Include:
- Multi-height profiles from sodar and lidar systems and tall towers
- Predict how turbine output will be affected by widely varying conditions of turbulence and shear following IEC recommendations
- Model effects of 10-minute shear profiles on power production
- Time-series modeling of shadow-flicker mitigation factors (Basic and Enterprise)
- Expanded noise modeling and reporting (Basic and Enterprise)
- Improved treatment of atmospheric non-neutral stability effects on wakes
- Improved support for integer and floating point data layer conversion
- Support for multi-air density and multi-turbulence intensity power curves
- Support for WAsP .wtg turbine files