Wind Farm Design

The development of a commercially successful wind farm that is sensitive to the local environment and community depends greatly on technical expertise. RES brings all the required skills in-house in order to streamline the development process and create value whilst integrating constructability and turbine siting issues early on. From mesoscale wind modeling and computational fluid dynamics to wind analysis and electromagnetic interference, we can do it all.

Technical Expertise:

• Wind Data Analysis. The wind speed climate prediction is the single most important driver of the cost of wind energy. RES have led the R&D discussion on MCP (Measure Correlate Predict) techniques for over 20 years. From calibrating the anemometers, to installing the meteorological tower, to quality controlling the data, to the long term climate estimate, we have the know-how.
  
  
• Wind farm layout design for energy optimization. The energy yield prediction takes into account the site climatic conditions, wind speed-up effects (due to local terrain and roughness changes), obstacle effects such as those due to forestry, 'wake' (sometimes know as 'array') effects due to interaction between turbines, and the power curves of the turbines considered. All our software is written in-house. This means that we fully understand the physical processes involved and that we are able to incorporate the latest thinking, best practices and modeling techniques immediately. We have also integrated our analysis software into a professional drawing package so that the transition from Development to Construction is seamless.
  
  
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for turbine siting in complex terrain.
  
  
• Mesoscale wind modeling. We have the ability to internally generate wind maps of whole states or provinces using our in-house weather model.
  
  
• Wind Farm Visualizations. These are used pre-construction to determine where the wind farm can be seen from & what it will look like from any given location. Fly-through animations can also be generated.
  
  
  
  
• Sound level analysis to protect the quality of the local environment.
  
  
• Radar, electromagnetic and microwave avoidance & mitigation.