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PLANT DESIGN AND ENERGY
PRODUCTION ESTIMATION
The methods and challenges of designing a wind power plant and estimating its energy
production could easily fill their own topic. The purpose of this chapter is to round
out the discussion of wind resource assessment by providing an overview of this
subject. The reader is introduced to the underlying principles and methods of energy
production estimation and taken through the main steps of selecting an appropriate
turbine model, importing or creating a wind resource grid (WRG), wake modeling,
designing and optimizing a layout, and estimating losses.
16.1 PLANT DESIGN SOFTWARE
One of the first steps in designing and evaluating a wind energy project is selecting the
plant design software (Fig. 16-1). There are several software packages available on
the market, including GL Garrad Hassan's WindFarmer, ReSoft's WindFarm, EMD
International's WindPro, and AWS Truepower's openWind. These programs all have
a number of features and capabilities in common. With them users can
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