This article outlines why the pre-processing modules Map and Model are crucial to improving workflows, improving productivity, reducing time spent on preparations, reducing the room for errors, as well as onboarding new employees.
The Map and Model modules in WindSim Accelerator are designed to offer wind energy professionals the most accurate, efficient, and user-friendly tools for wind resource assessment. These modules, when used together, can significantly improve project workflows, reduce time spent on repetitive tasks, and enhance the overall quality of wind farm design. Here’s why you should be using these modules in WindSim Accelerator:
Accurate, Fast, and User-Friendly Wind Resource Assessment
WindSim Accelerator helps wind farm investors, developers, consultants, and operators optimize project design with superior accuracy in less time. The cloud-based workflow ensures seamless operations, eliminating the need for extensive local hardware, and offering flexibility across multiple users, devices, and locations.
The Map and Model modules are central to this streamlined workflow. These modules provide advanced data retrieval and modeling capabilities, ensuring accurate turbine placement, which directly improves energy production, reduces maintenance costs (OPEX), and boosts project profitability (RoI).
Key Features of the Map and Model Modules
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Map Module (up to 80% time saving):
- Area selector with integrated access to ESRI elevation and roughness data
- Built-in roughness editor for fine-tuning data
- Ability to extract geographic information quickly and accurately, saving hours of manual data gathering
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Model Module:
- 3D model generator with grid specifications and customizable numerical model options
- Visualization of grid data for easier analysis
- Editable input parameters for precise simulation setup
These modules enable faster project execution and improved decision-making by reducing the time spent on pre-processing and ensuring high-quality data is available at every step of the process.
Benefits of Using the Map and Model Modules
Significant Time Savings: The Map module allows users to quickly extract and utilize elevation and roughness data, cutting down the time required for data gathering and preparation by up to 80%. By accessing integrated ESRI data directly through the cloud, users can avoid the time-consuming process of manually collecting data from multiple sources.
Enhanced Simulation Accuracy: The Model module offers precise 3D model generation with customizable grid specifications, enabling more accurate simulations of wind fields. This results in higher accuracy in wind resource assessments, ultimately improving the overall reliability and performance of your wind farm designs.
Cloud-Based Efficiency: Both modules leverage the power of the cloud, meaning all data processing, modeling, and simulations occur remotely, freeing up local computing resources. This eliminates the need for expensive local hardware, making WindSim Accelerator highly scalable and accessible across multiple devices and locations.
Seamless Project Management: The Model module supports running multiple projects at the same time, allowing for parallel processing of wind field simulations. This capability increases productivity by enabling users to handle several tasks simultaneously, without the bottlenecks typically associated with traditional software.
Error Reduction and Increased Trustworthiness: The Map module's integration with trusted data sources reduces the room for manual errors, while the Model module's advanced simulation capabilities ensure highly reliable results. This helps in delivering more trustworthy and accurate wind resource assessments, critical for investment decisions.
Scalable and Flexible: As part of a cloud-based platform, the Map and Model modules offer flexibility for teams to collaborate from different locations. Whether working remotely or across global teams, users can access projects securely and in real-time, enabling better collaboration and faster project execution.
Advantages for Your Projects
By integrating these modules into your wind farm design process, you gain:
- Faster and More Accurate Results: Quicker turnaround times with highly accurate simulation data enable better decision-making and project planning.
- Reduced Costs: Lower Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure (OPEX) due to optimized resource use and more precise simulations.
- Improved Project Profitability: WindSim Accelerator delivers realistic AEP projections, which are critical for project financing and long-term profitability.
- Enhanced Competitiveness: Faster execution times and more reliable results improve your ability to deliver successful projects on time and within budget.
As Ove Undheim, Principal Wind Resource Analyst at Statkraft, noted, “With WindSim Accelerator, the process can be as quick as 30 minutes for an experienced user when the available Windsim sources are of sufficient accuracy for the calculation.” This shows just how much time can be saved by using the built-in Map and Model modules.
A promising outlook
By using the Map and Model modules in WindSim Accelerator, wind farm developers can lower project risks, enhance wind farm profitability, and secure better financing terms. The seamless GIS data integration and automatic grid modeling simplify complex tasks, allowing you to run multiple projects simultaneously with unmatched efficiency.
Eivind Myklebust Støvne, Wind Energy Advisor at Norconsult, emphasized, “The pre-processing module in WindSim Accelerator has improved the efficiency of our workflow. Easy access to high-quality data has reduced both the project execution time and the room for errors.” This feedback reflects the module’s capability to streamline workflows and minimize mistakes.
An invitation...
If you're looking to optimize your wind resource assessment and significantly reduce your project execution time, the Map and Model modules in WindSim Accelerator are your go-to solutions. They provide the tools you need to achieve superior accuracy, faster results, and higher profitability.
Take the next step in improving your wind farm design and development process by trying WindSim Accelerator today. Contact our team for a demo, and experience how the Map and Model modules can transform your workflow and project outcomes.