Built on the success of the community edition, openWind® Enterprise is a wind project design and optimization software application created to provide professional wind developers with a highly configurable toolbox of capabilities that extend beyond energy capture. Using industry-leading geographical information systems (GIS) interface, users can optimize for cost of energy, assess deep array impacts, define and analyze strategies for managed shut-down of turbines, and manage uncertainty.
openWind Community was initially launched as an open-source application. Since then it has been tested by a broad user group and has been proven effective in closing the gap between pre-construction energy estimates and actual wind plant performance. Read more about this in the methods and validation paper.
Features and capabilities of the software include:
| Description of Feature | Community | Enterprise |
| Authentication of Reports | x | |
| Cost of Energy Optimization | x | |
| Cross-platform (Runs on Windows/Linux/Unix, 32bit and 64 bit) | x | x |
| Deep Array Wake Model (DAWM) | x | |
| Directional Curtailment, Inflow Angle, Turbulence | x | |
| Effective Turbulence Intensity (IEC61400-1 Ed3 Annex D) | x | |
| GPS Integration | x | x |
| Gridded Turbine Layouts | x | |
| ISO 9613 Noise Model | x | x |
| Layer Logic and Layer Validity (with buffer setting) | x | x |
| Layout Optimization | x | x |
| Mass-conservation Wind Flow Model (WindMap) | x | x |
| Non-Ideal Performance Losses | x | |
| Optimization Respecting Noise | x | x |
| Pervasive Multi-Threading | x | x |
| Shadow Flicker | x | |
| Siting and Optimization for Large Constrained Sites | x | |
| Standard Wake Models (Park, Modified Park, Eddy Viscosity) | x | x |
| Time-Series Energy Capture (8760s, 12x24s) | x | |
| Turbine Scheduling (Noise, Bat, Shadow-Flicker Curtailments) | x | |
| Uncertainty Module | x | |
| Validated Energy Capture | x | x |
| Zones of Visual Impact Model | x | x |
If you would like to receive a demonstration or pricing details on openWind Enterprise software contact us.
Trial the open-source version, openWind Community at awsopenwind.org.
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