AWS Truepower has announced a new version of its wind prospecting and resource analysis application. windNavigator 2.2 supports wind project siting, resource assessment, and now project design and automated business processes.
Users can easily conduct initial project design work including preliminary turbine layouts, initial energy estimates, meteorological tower siting and more, when they combine windNavigator datasets and wind farm design software to capture a true picture of a site or project area’s potential for wind development. windNavigator 2.2 includes the following new datasets:
Users can easily conduct initial project design work including preliminary turbine layouts, initial energy estimates, meteorological tower siting and more, when they combine windNavigator datasets and wind farm design software to capture a true picture of a site or project area’s potential for wind development. windNavigator 2.2 includes the following new datasets:
- * Wind Resource Grids (WRG200) at 200 metre resolution for GIS-savvy analysts to conduct preliminary project layout and initial energy estimates. Project Design Grids (PDG200) are also delivered with a WRG200 order at no additional charge for use with AWS Truepower’s openWind project design software.
- * Typical Year Virtual Met Masts (Typical Year VMM), which provide an hourly wind profile for a typical year (8,760 hours) to confirm meteorological tower locations, or as a possible replacement for met-masts in projects that have development cycles of less than a year and a higher tolerance for uncertainty.
- * Long-Term Virtual Masts (Long-Term VMM), which provide a complete historical (1997–present) hourly wind resource profile for a point location.
