Sections
Getting Started
  • Work through the tutorial available on the downloads page.
  • Read and/or subscribe to the support forums.
  • Peruse some images of the software in action.
  • Watch an instructional video 
Enterprise Version
A commercial version of openWind is available for clients who require:
  • Deep Array Wake Models
  • optimization for cost of energy
  • shadow-flicker
  • multi-threaded wind-flow calculation
  • sector management
  • optimization enhancements
  • grid layout tool
  • stream-lined interface
  • authenticated reports
Licensing
Please contact the openWind team regarding:
  • developing products from the openWind codebase
  • partnering with us to develop specialist modules

Welcome

OpenWind is wind farm design software for engineers and scientists. It is open source and free to download and use.

OpenWind is an open source platform designed to empower scientists and engineers working in the field of technical wind energy consultancy and to provide transparency to those whose job it is to see that the industry remains on a firm financial footing.

We invite the wind energy community to embrace this project and work with us to improve the industry as a whole.

We envisage this platform as a means by which experts working in research or academia can see their work realized in a form which can benefit the industry and the planet.

We see this project as a vehicle by which best practices in the industry can progress in step with advancements in the theory of wind farm design, turbine loading analysis and modeling.
Recent News
Version 1.3 released
Hope to see you next week in Seattle where I will be demonstrating the latest additions and upcoming Enterprise features.
December 11, 2011
New Version
Fixed WRB import to improve compatibility with Meteodyn WT export.
October 23, 2011
New Version
Output to TAB file has been added to the time-series tab of the MetMastLayer properties.
July 22, 2011