The toolkit comprises two computer programs which can both be purchased and downloaded from our website www.wind-power-program.com
The WindPower Program. WindPower is an interactive computer program that can be used to calculate the performance of wind turbines ranging from small domestic units with rotors of a metre or two in diameter up to the largest commercial units with rotor diameters of ar
ound 100 metres in diameter. It calculates mean power and annual energy outputs and enables the economics of a particular turbine to be estimated as a function of the mean wind speed at the site. For a small turbine, it also provides estimates of how much of the electricity generated will be used locally and how much will be exported to the grid. This program presents the NOABL database of mean UK mean wind speeds in a graphical and interactive form. Position inputs can be through postcodes, Ordnance Survey grid position or latitude and longitude. The output is a tabular and graphical display of the mean wind speed variation above the ground at the particular pocation. The geographical position can be continuously varied through scroll bar controls so that it is very easy to survey an area for its wind speed characteristics. The program also includes corrections to wind speed estimates due to surface roughness.
