Author: Francesco Miceli
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Internal roads optimization: an update
These vacation days I am managing to find time to work on my “automatic wind farm optimization” project.Yesterday I managed to add a new feature to the optimization of wind farm internal roads.In the new version, the algorithm is also able to consider existing roads and “no-go-areas” (areas that cannot be used due to environmental…
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Wind farm internal roads optimization
In parallel with the optimization of crane pads (you can find the article on the topic here) I am also trying to automate the calculation of wind farm internal roads. At the moment I have developed three solutions: the first joins the turbines looking for the minimum spanning tree (MST), i.e., the shortest possible connection….
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Wind farm crane pads optimization: a solution with QGIS
QGIS is a great open source GIS software that I often use to display information in various formats (e.g. SHP). It has an interesting number of additional plug-ins that enhance its capabilities. Over this Christmas break I managed to find a few hours and have virtually finished developing a plug in that helps define the…
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Wind farm BoP optimizer
After several years pondering the possibility, I finally decided to try to build an app that automatically optimizes the BoP of wind farms. So, with the help of relatives who kept their children busy during the Christmas vacations and Claud.ia (Anthropic’s artificial intelligence) I began to complete the various elements. The idea is to solve…
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Esteyco’s braced foundation: an update
This article is an update to the post I have made some time ago on Esteyco’s Braced Foundation. I have been contacted by David Sarrasín, Product Development Director at Esteyco. He provided an interesting presentation of the braced foundation solution. He also gave me more context on the solution. This is the additional info he…
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Transporting wind turbine blades: when something goes wrong
A collection of videos featuring the transportation of wind turbine blades – some truly impressive.
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Live Long and Prosper: useful life of wind farms
The useful life of wind farms continues to increase. When I started working on the first wind projects in the 2000s, the ‘standard’ useful life was 20 years.Now it is not uncommon to see projects with a useful life of 30 or 35 years, and it seems that in some cases it is up to…
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Evolution of wind energy CapEx in the US
Wandering around the net, I found this interesting dataset of US wind projects:https://emp.lbl.gov/wind-energy-capital-expenditures-capex It is the parte of thw ‘Land-Based Wind Market Report 2022‘ study, done by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It is a very interesting collection of data – the CapEx of dozens of wind projects built…
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Deep Impact: rising interest rates & wind energy
How strong was the impact of rising interest rates on the renewable energy sector? A lot, if we look at the S&P Global Clean Energy index. The index consists of the major companies in the renewable energy sector – not only folks likes of First Solar, Vestas and Ørsted (formerly Dong Energy), but also Chinese…
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What is a Site Assessment Report?
The Site Assessment report (also known as wind resource assessment or site suitability) is a document containing the results of a detailed study to confirm that a specific turbine model can be used in a project and how much energy it will produce. Both points are extremely important: not only is it necessary for the…