WF-01 Introduction to WindFarmer (Bespoke Course)

Sign up to our training course where you’ll dive deep into wind farm design using WindFarmer. Over the course of four days, you’ll gain hands-on experience and explore the key features and capabilities of WindFarmer.

Description

In this course you will learn about wind farm design using WindFarmer wind resource assessment software software. The process of wind farm design involves a number of disciplines and skilled use of sophisticated software tools. These methodologies will be examined, discussed and applied under the guidance of our trainer.

Learning objectives

This course will equip you with an understanding in the use of WindFarmer software, with particular focus on the following areas:

  • Download and import GIS data
  • Measured data: import, visualize, clean and correlate
  • Predict long-term climate
  • Model windflow
  • Simulate wakes and perform energy calculations
  • Optimize layout
  • Export results and generate reports

Target group

WF-01 is suitable for participants who already have a background in wind farm design and energy assessment but are new to WindFarmer: Analyst. The aim is to equip the participants with hands-on experience required to use WindFarmer: Analyst for basic energy assessments, and to start using some more advanced features of the software.  

Format

WF-01 is delivered by a combination of teacher led sessions via video conference and walkthrough software exercises using a fictitious onshore project in Hawaii. The course is run over 4 x 3hr sessions for a class of up to 5 interactive attendees and unlimited number of passive attendees.  

Session Title Aims Content

Session

1

Title

Introducing WindFarmer: Analyst and conducting an indicative energy assessment

Aims

  
Understand the role of WindFarmer: Analyst in the wind farm development workflow.  
  
User interface orientation.  
  
Able to conduct an indicative assessment using freely available map and wind resource data. 

Content

  1. Introductions  
  2. Key concepts and calculation chain overview. 
  3. Mapping (Free download)  
  4. Components library  
  5. Wind map and climate statistics input from Global Wind atlas
  6. Energy calculation

Session

2

Title

Building Workbook, Layout design,  turbine interactions and annual energy predictions

Aims

Able to construct a workbook from input files.  
  
Able to construct a workbook, define a wind farm and turbine layout and calculate net energy starting from “.tab” and “.wti” wind climate data. Understand the important wake and energy calculation settings and concepts. Able to run the energy calculation and report results for multiple design scenarios.

Content

  1. Layout constraints  
  2. Wind farm definition and turbine locations  
  3. Wind flow modelling  
  4. Turbine interactions and annual energy predictions.  
  5. Reporting  
  6. Design Scenarios

Session

3

Title

Wind Analysis

Aims

Understand wind analysis methodology in WindFarmer: Analyst.  
  
Able to ingest and clean time series measurements then perform a wind analysis to predict long-term hub height wind climate.

Content

Background and theory behind wind analysis processes. Explanation of auto-setup workflows used in WFA.  

Exercise to cover full wind analysis:  

  1. Measurement site configuration  
  2. Data ingest, recalibration and time offset correction.  
  3. Data cleaning.  
  4. Data reconstruction calculation.  
  5. Long term adjustment  
  6. Wind shear analysis  
  7. Long-term hub-height wind climate creation

Discussion on alternative workflows

Session

4

Title

Net energy, uncertainty, and loss factor analysis

Aims

Understand how to perform the DNV net energy calculation in WindFarmer: Analyst, applying losses and uncertainties and interpret results.  
  
Able to perform more advanced workflows (if time permits).

Content

Theory: Uncertainty modelling considerations, Monte Carlo net energy simulation in WindFarmer: Analyst.  

Exercise to run and understand the net energy simulation.  
Other functionalities can be covered if time permits, such as:  

  1. Power time series and curtailment efficiency calculation  
  2. Layout design / optimisation  
  3. Automation examples  
  4. Design equivalent turbulence  
  5. Noise analysis introduction  
  6. Shadow Flicker analysis introduction  

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