As the wind industry grapples with constant developments in the wind farm design software market, Windtech International introduces the newest player amongst the innovations: openWind®. Featured in the June 2009 edition, “openWind: An Open-Source Approach to Wind Farm Design and Optimization” was written by AWS Truewind’s Nick Robinson. The article elaborates on the application’s unique open-source platform which allows for the seamless integration of openWind with GIS constructs:

Over the past two decades, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become a widely adopted approach to interacting with geographical data. The technology has reached a level of maturity and multidisciplinary application that affords even novice users some level of comfort with GIS constructs…Built from the ground up on GIS data types, the openWind architecture is intended to greatly simplify the design and optimization of constrained sites and allow data to be exchanged easily between the software and user’s GIS databases. (Windtech International).

openWind, released in the autumn of 2008, is freely available for download at the openWind website.

For full text of the article, “openWind: An Open-Source Approach to Wind Farm Design and Optimization,” reference the June 2009 issue of Windtech International. For a truncated version click here.