Developing Wind Farm Layout

In this section, you are introduced about how to set up siting parameters, start calculation, and check result.

1. Select the newly-created wind farm boundary and click the expand icon 《 to open the operation pane.
2. Click the Macro Siting tab in the Operation pane.

   

3. Set up the following parameters.

   Table 1. Macrositing Parameters

   Name	Description
   Max total	Maximum capacity of a wind farm
   Min full-load hours per WTG	Minimum full-load hours for a turbine
   Max No. of masts	Maximum No. of recommended masts
   Hub height	Hub height
   Turbine model	Show the turbine model series in the project which contain common turbine model(s). If the selected turbine model series does not contain a turbine model at the selected hub height, the common turbine model at the nearest hub height will be adopted in the calculation.
   Layout rules	Energy-optimized: layout by scatter; Grid: layout by queue
   Min distance	Minimum distance between two turbines

4. Click Calculate. The calculation progress is displayed at the center of GIS.

   When the calculation is completed, check the following parameters at the bottom of operation pane: total capacity, net AEP (after wake loss), full-load hours, total No. of WTG, wake loss, WTGs mean wind speed, No. of mast, WTG's mean elevation.