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windPRO Changelog

What's new in windPRO 4.0.423

Sep 25, 2023
  • Access to on-line data: Until one year after of the release of next windPRO version.

New in windPRO 4.0.422 (Sep 7, 2023)

  • Redesigned Interface:
  • windPRO 4.0 introduces an update to the general look and feel of the entire windPRO suite. With a new ribbon-based main window tools, modules, and setups have been grouped together in relevant sections of windPRO:
  • Geo Data
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Loads & Operation
  • Environment & Visual
  • Solar
  • System Integration
  • Tools
  • Favorites
  • You can mix and match your preferred tools and modules in a new Favorites tab which can be used across all your projects.
  • windPRO 4.0 also introduces a new modern interface with Dark and Light themes, automatically reflecting your Windows 10/11 preferences.
  • As an extra bonus we also include free access to Bing Maps aerial data for crisp, high-resolution background maps.
  • All in all, windPRO 4.0 makes life easier to use for both new and experienced users.
  • Curtailment Optimizer:
  • The new Layout Optimizer for finding the best turbine positions is now being widely used across many wind farm projects.
  • windPRO 4.0 takes optimization one step further with a new multi-dimensional optimization engine to automatically generate a curtailment strategy for maximizing yields while minimizing noise turbine-by-turbine.
  • Stay within noise limits with minimum production loss.
  • Optimize curtailments by the time of day, wind speed, direction, temperature, etc.
  • Output noise curtailment strategies that are verifiable in both DECIBEL and NORD2000.
  • Solar Optimizer:
  • SOLAR PV is a huge success! With more and more functionalities being included over time, windPRO 4.0 introduces a small redesign of the SOLAR PV module to better handle the many new features.
  • The Solar Optimizer has been strongly requested by users, so in windPRO 4.0 you can perform an LCOE/NPV/AEP optimization of row spacing, tilt azimuth, AC/DC ratio, and number of panels.
  • An Electricity Price Generator makes it possible to make even more accurate NPV optimizations by simulating the prices over time.
  • OPTIMIZE:
  • Steer the optimization away from expensive areas and gain a better trade-off between wind resources and costs by using Cost Maps. Load grid files into the Layout Optimizer as either CAPEX, OPEX, or ABEX to represent the cost correlated to e.g.:
  • Soil conditions
  • Water depths
  • Land purchasing costs
  • Access conditions
  • windPRO 4.0 also brings a power boost to the optimization engine with higher calculation speeds and the ability to optimize with wake constraints for both new and existing wind turbines. Select existing wind turbines from a layered list instead of a flat list for easier identification of separate layouts.
  • PARK:
  • Quantify losses due to temperature derating in high altitude/high-temperature environments.
  • TurbOPark included in Time-Varying calculations.
  • Higher fidelity curtailment loss attribution, allowing for multiple curtailment rules to be executed in the same timestep.
  • Finer resolution for sunrise/sunset curtailment rules.
  • Inclusion of Cost Maps in the Cost calculation.
  • SITE COMPLIANCE:
  • Downscaling with spectral correction of extreme winds
  • Including a new Offshore mode
  • Tropical Cyclone assessment
  • Directional tower loads to increase accuracy in LOAD RESPONSE
  • RESOURCE:
  • Improved calculation speed when using WAsP and Scaler on a multicore machine.
  • PERFORMANCE CHECK:
  • A new method for substituting disabled and/or missing periods of wind speed in Post Construction using the methodology from TR10.
  • New auto filter features for quickly cleaning SCADA data for 100s of turbines.
  • Seasonal and Diurnal historic power curves and/or Air Density correction for loss calculations
  • NEW T-RIX Complexity Tool:
  • Easily evaluate the complexity checks required by the upcoming TR6 revision.
  • HYBRID:
  • Support for variable tariffs with different prices for week days, time of day, weekends, holidays.
  • Environment:
  • NORD2000:
  • NORD2000 has been re-designed to look more familiar to DECIBEL. This makes it easier to switch between the two modules.

New in windPRO 3.6.366 (Mar 15, 2023)

  • BASIS:
  • Shapefile import - improved detection of the object description data inside the dbf file
  • Shapefile export now writes object descriptions as UTF-8. Shapefiles exported from windPRO containing non-ASCII characters in object descriptions will need to be re-exported from windPRO to be corrected to UTF-8
  • Fixed issue where duplicating a layer would change the sorting order of objects
  • Fixed issue with converting downloaded roughness area to lines
  • DECIBEL:
  • Fixed an error where the Worst frequency threshold was wrong in Finnish codes in the Main result table. The correct result was visible in the chart and associated table
  • Fixed issue where ground attenuation value would be printed for Swedish 2009, even when it's not used
  • Fixed issue where the dynamic isoline calculation didn't react to changes in noise modes
  • GLARE:
  • Fixed an issue of import/export from Excel
  • LOSS&UNCERTAINTY:
  • Fixed misleading text label in Flicker-curtailment calculation, when calculating with WTG-Receptor shutdown pairs
  • METEO:
  • Improved import of Meteo-40M logger files
  • Added a warning in Calibration setup if windPRO detects that there is a change in height in the logger for the same channel
  • Fixed error in calculating veer if one of the input direction signals had crossed north and the other had not
  • Fixed issue with Wind weibull parameters imported with 16 sectors being wrongly displayed
  • Fixed issue with faulty mean wind speed in the "Monthly means - statistics" introduced in the first windPRO 3.6 release
  • Fixed issue with a warning window appearing unnecessarily when visiting the Calibration tab after loading data
  • OPTIMIZE:
  • Improved the selection of existing WTGs by allowing layers to be selected. This is especially useful when selecting a user-defined start layout
  • Moved input field of Site to make room for German translation
  • Fixed issue where viewing the compare tab with a large number of turbines could cause an exception
  • Fixed issue where using an RSF file in Gauss-Krüger projection could make the optimizer believe there was no resource in the WTG area
  • PARK:
  • Fixed french translation error in Main report
  • PERFORMANCE CHECK:
  • Fixed issue where filtering by "Last Month" did not work
  • Added ability to aggregate 5-minute values to 10-minute resolution
  • Fixed issue where time series with varying one second offsets could cause recovery rate checks to fail
  • Fixed issue where WTG ID Column could not be selected when there was too many top lines in files
  • Fixed issue where signal values with non-breaking spaces could not be read properly
  • PHOTOMONTAGE:
  • Fixed issue where changing the camera FOV without opening the camera properties would cause the result to file to print a wrong FOV
  • RESOURCE:
  • Fixed bug where running a resource calculation with multiple masts with a scaler using an external flow file could throw an exception
  • Scripting:
  • Added ability to disable the use of TIN for an object. This is now an option in the importLayerFromFile method.
  • SITE COMPLIANCE:
  • Fixed a display problem in the sector management graphic
  • SKETCHUP:
  • Fixed issue where corrupt transmission lines could cause an exception
  • Fixed issue where exporting PVs and trees to SketchUp could cause an exception
  • Fixed issue where exporting to SiteVision would not work when using comma as decimal separator
  • TR10:
  • Changed description of the concept choice for TR10 on first window
  • Extended an existing export feature to allow to comply with the second round robin test organized by FGW
  • Fixed issue with incorrect assignments of categories in 10-min time stamp.
  • Adapted an issue with end of gaps to the requirements of the FGW round robin test. Now the "No status after gap" ends at that time stamp, where either beginning or an end of an event were detected.

New in windPRO 3.5.587 (Oct 4, 2022)

  • BASIS:
  • Fixed issue in the wind turbine catalogue where importing power curves from an existing turbine model would not be saved to .UWT file.
  • HYBRID:
  • Fixed issue where the NPV would not be updated after changing currency.
  • METEO:
  • Fixed error in Recalibration tab. If you recalibrated the scale of the logger with a user-defined input and left the fields blank, then the calculated scale would be incorrect.
  • METEO ANALYZER:
  • Fixed issue where WAsP-CFD results using the scaler were not available.
  • PARK:
  • Fixed issue where calculating large wind farms (800 wtgs) with N.O Jensen would take hours instead of minutes to calculate.
  • Fixed issue with previewing reports including Bing maps.
  • RESOURCE:
  • Fixed error in sector-wise shear calculation. If you have enabled "Include site parameters", we recommend to recalculate.
  • Fixed issue where having k=0 values for rescaling would throw a "Division by zero" error.
  • SHADOW:
  • Fixed issue where deactivating ZVI, the LoS for obstacles would still be included in maps.