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Wind. It means the world to us.1

Optimise your site layout. Optimise your business case certainty SiteDesign® optimizes the layout of your wind power plant, through a sophisticated analysis of lifetime energy costs for each turbine. This is achieved by striking the most effective balance between a layout that maximises expected revenue, and one that reduces estimated operating and maintenance costs based upon Vestas’ deep knowledge into turbine components and operating data from global wind power plants. Put simply, SiteDesign® finds the balance between the estimated ratio of annual revenue to operating costs. Vestas’...

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Let’s design your ideal wind site

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Helping you harness the full power of complex wind energy sites The optimisation of a power plant layout is an intricate process that requires high quality data input, calculations, precise analysis and advanced computer modelling techniques. It is especially important when designing a layout for sites with complex terrain. The SiteDesign® study is based upon sophisticated studies using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software that models forest and other types of complex terrain at a very high level of detail. These simulations are superior to the industry standard linear flow models....

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Wind Resource Analysis On-site measurements are analysed using our purpose built software tools allowing for an unrivalled and unbiased analysis and estimate of the wind speeds and directions the site would be expected to experience over the turbine design life time. The long term wind regime is assessed using our validated wind library covering the onshore regions of the world in an unprecedented high resolution. Complexity Factors such as terrain complexity and wind from certain directions can influence the efficiency of your wind power plant. SiteDesign® takes account of this and other...

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Your partner in planning Using CFD software to model local topographical conditions In order to optimise the layout of a wind power plant, SiteDesign® runs Computational Fluid Dynamics software on our powerful in-house supercomputer to perform simulations of the conditions on site and analyse their effects over the whole operating life of the plant. The CFD software that we use for SiteDesign® was originally developed in the aerospace industry to analyse airflow around aircraft designs. CFD is a branch of fluid mechanics used to identify problems that involve flows in different types of...

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+43,000 Vestas has over three decades of experience and expertise gained from installing more than 43,000 wind turbines globally.

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©Vestas 2011 This document was created by Vestas Wind Systems A/S and contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information. All rights reserved. No part of the document may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means such as graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping or information storage and retrieval systems, without the prior written permission of Vestas Wind Systems A/S. All specifications are for information only and are subject to change without notice. Vestas does not make any representations or extend any warranties, expressed...

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