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

Downloads Demo Movies

Rasterising Constraints

As we add more and more vector-based environmental constraints to our site, the optimisation process can start to slow down considerably, especially when trying to place hundreds of turbines. This short video shows a way to compress all the geometry tests into one raster layer, allowing rapid optimisation of a site with 300 turbines in this case.

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Size 14.9 MB - File type video/mp4
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