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Wind Resource Grid (WRG) Files

Probably the most complete modeling product on the market: long-term statistics at all heights within an area plus high-resolution temperature, mean wind speed, extreme wind speed (VREF) and turbulence intensity maps. Now with the ability to be calibrated with measurements.

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When to Use FARMS

When the wind farm area is already selected but not yet the turbine locations or their class.

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Technical Details

Fully selectable areas in size (up to 4000 km²), location and orientation.
The FARM area is rectangular with a fixed aspect ratio.
100 m resolution.
All heights between 30 and 300 m.
It is possible to calibrate with measurements.
Unlimited met mast measurement inputs for calibration purposes.
Both WRG files, calibrated and uncalibrated, will be available to download.
Unlimited turbine location outputs within the selected area.
It is possible to extract .tab files at any point on the map.
Wind speed histograms with their Weibull fits.
16 sectors wind direction rose.
50 years extreme wind speed (Vref) via 30 years Gumbel fit.
Characteristic turbulence intensity distribution in speed bins.
Sector-wise inflow angle and vertical shear.
Exportable to Google Earth KML, ESRI grid, WAsP WRG files for WindPro, WindFARMer, OpenWind and WRB files for OpenWind.

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Modeled wind resource data for the wind industry.
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