Windlab Systems Pty Ltd. products

Wind resource modelling has its origins in the 1970’s. Since then much has changed in terms of the models used and the methods for wind data collection. However, one thing that has not changed significantly is the overall methodology used to create a high resolution wind map across a wind farm for the purpose of optimising turbine locations. Windlab has been working to develop a much more modern and accurate methodology that makes optimum use of all on-site measurements combined with state-of-the-art regional-scale and very high resolution flow modelling. This modelling system is called WindScape Hybrid Deterministic Statistical Method (HDSM).

To be effective, wind mapping technology must cover vast areas, typically the size of complete states or even countries. At the same time resolution is important, as topographic features that accelerate the wind to economic levels can be hidden in low resolution mapping. WindScape is a broad area high resolution wind mapping system that is capable of mapping vast areas at a resolution of 100m or better. Originally developed by Windlab scientists while they were with the Australian scientific organization CSIRO and then extensively developed in-house, the software uses as its starting point inputs from weather data collected around the world.