What's New in Greenwich

Greenwich is committed to satisfying customer needs, improving user experience, and optimizing functionalities in the platform for more intelligent and enjoyable design.

In the latest versions, the following functions have been updated:


Version No.	Module	Function	Details
6.6.0	Feasibility study report	Add wind farm boundary selection.	Creating and Generating Feasibility Study Report
	Data layer	Add a data layer for wind farms.	Data Layers
	Substation siting	Support import of substation information from electric single-line graph for substation siting Add selection of avoiding scope from database Optimize display of substation siting result	Substation Siting
6.7.0	Economy map	Add analysis and calculation of economy map to locate economically optimal areas within a large-scale area.	Economy Map
6.7.0	Route network major component transportation cost evaluation	Add calculation of the reconstruction and expansion cost of route network.	Route Network Major Component Transportation Cost Evaluation
6.8.0	Power line design	Optimize the avoiding area selection with division of public avoiding database and custom avoiding area.	Configuring Parameters and Starting Calculation
6.8.0	Economic evaluation	Optimize the power price subsidy configuration function by enabling the configuration of multiple subsidies for grid and corporate consumer.	Associating Budget Estimation Scheme
6.9.0	Data layer	Added seabed sediment layer of Chinese and surrounding waters. Added built offshore wind farms within China. Published project BOP cost data layer to demonstrate and compare BOP data for cost estimation and budget composition.	Data Layers
6.9.0	Substation design	Added entrance route design. Optimized demonstration of substation in GIS. You are enabled to edit the substation vertexes. If you performed the entrance route design, the route is also editable in GIS. Added extension substation design. The typical design schemes are offered for extension substation.	Substation Design
6.10.0	AEP calculation	Added the shear correction function to correct the overall shear in turbulence matrix and improve the accuracy of load adaptability analysis.	Calculating AEP - Real Frequency
	Planning and Siting	Added the KK index which shows the terrain risk level for turbine type selection and future failure prediction.	Configuring Turbine Property
	Economic evaluation	Added a new financing way of financing lease. According to the actual financing scheme of user, select Long-term loan or Financing lease for project economic evaluation.	Associating Budget Estimation Scheme
	Data layer	Added the observation point layer, displaying mast locations and wind data collected by database.	Data Layers
	Substation siting	Added configuration of circuit cost at each voltage level and maximum transmission capacity of single loop.	Configuring Operation Parameters and Starting Calculation
	Wind farm layout design	Added the function to add multiple turbine locations at a time.	Creating a New WTG Group
6.11.0	Data layer	Added the weather station and typhoon path layers.	Data Layers
6.12.0	Data layer	Added the typhoon extreme wind atlas layer.	Data Layers
6.13.0	Wind resource arrangement	Added the wind & solar resource evaluation function.	Resource Evaluation
6.14.0	Turbine library	Reconstructed the turbine library, adding or optimizing the configuration of turbine model series, turbine model, operation mode, applicable tower, foundation load, and component group.	Turbine Library
	Layout optimization	Added the regular layout optimization function to provide relatively regular layout with less wake loss both offshore and onshore.	Wind Farm Layout Optimization
	CFD model	Distinguished the CFD syntheses and sector-wise calculation.	CFD Model
	Mesoscale	Optimized the mesoscale grid with higher precision by adopting the CNN wind acceleration factor and adding more than 1,500 reliable masts in China.	Address Detail
6.15.0	Reliability prediction	Added the reliability prediction function to help select turbine model at the turbine locations and predict the future maintenance cost.	Reliability Prediction
6.15.0	Wind farm layout design	Supported the selection of multiple component groups.	Configuring Turbine Property
7.0.0	All modules	New white&black template is published with a brand new color scheme, icon design, and interface layout. The user workflow and interaction experience are optimized.	All modules
	Wind farm layout design	Optimized the overview page of WTG group by distinguishing turbine location configuration and turbine model configuration, which laid a foundation for the future optimization of operation mode.	Configuring Turbine Property
	Economic evaluation	Upgraded the parameter template of the onshore centralized model and onshore distributed model of economic evaluation.	Associating Budget Estimation Scheme
	Access plan	Optimized the single line graph modification operations.	Manual Configuration of Single-Line Topology
7.1.0	Turbine library	Optimize the tower template in turbine library for future tower customization.	Configuring Turbine Model Series
	Turbine library	Add the Octave type of noise curve.	Configuring Operation Mode
	AEP calculation	Support the output of AEP check list in mesoscale AEP calculation.	Calculating AEP - Mesoscale
	Reliability prediction	In the detail result table of reliability prediction, highlight the overloaded turbine locations.	Checking Calculation Results
7.2.0	Mast	During wind direction repair, synchronized the calculation of correlation as by wind direction.	Mast Data Repair
7.2.0	Public data	In the downloaded wind resource map, the upper limit of the exterior rectangle area is 2000 km².	Creating a Terrain or Roughness Map based on Polygon

In this chapter, only main functions updated in the latest 13 releases of Greenwich are listed. For more updates in earlier releases, refer to the section Release Notes.