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.
Commercial Version
A commercial version of openWind is planned for clients who require:
  • authenticated reports
  • authenticated binaries
  • custom development
  • support contracts
Licensing
Please contact the openWind team regarding:
  • developing products from the openWind codebase
  • developing plugins to the openWind codebase

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
New Version
Important update - fixes a bug which can cause small differences to energy capture output.
August 25, 2010
Summer Release
New version addresses problems with ASC reading and True North
June 10, 2010
New Release
This is the last version before WindPower 2010 in Dallas.
May 19, 2010