Selecting a Wind Farm Boundary

The first step of macrositing is to select a scope. Two methods are available: importing a wind farm boundary and drawing a wind farm boundary manually.

Importing a Wind Farm Boundary

  1. Select a project name in the project pane.
  2. Click the Import/Export button in the operation button area.
  3. On the Create page, select Area&boundary in the menu.
  4. Select Wind Farm Boundary in the Polygon Category drop-down menu.
  5. Click the Upload button to import the wind farm boundary file. The format is txt, kml, or kmz. The wind farm boundary file can be acquired from the following two approaches:
    • Download the boundaries in GIS. Learn more in the section Data Download.
    • Click the Download Template button to download the template file in the txt format, and input coordinate of inflection point of the polygon.
  6. Select projection, zone, and datum.
  7. Input the name of polygon.
  8. Click the Create button. The newly created polygon appears in the project pane.

Drawing a Wind Farm Boundary

  1. Draw a polygon in GIS. Refer to the section Drawing a Polygon for more details.
  2. Save the polygon as Wind Farm Boundary. The newly created polygon appears in the project pane.