Exhibition Ticker - GL Garrad Hassan Training: Wind Farm Design and Introduction to WindFarmer

Investment in an understanding of wind farm design can reduce timelines and costs at the development stages of a project. The course introduces industry professionals to the principles of wind farm design, giving a thorough overview of the design process. It starts from the principles of wind flow, turbulence, and wake effects, and proceeds to the calculation of energy production, environmental analyses and optimisation of the turbine micrositing. The course uses WindFarmer software to illustrate the concepts and attendees will receive a demonstration copy for follow–up exploration.

TRAINING FROM THE EXPERTS IN WIND ENERGY
GL Garrad Hassan offers professional training courses developed in-house, which are delivered by experienced trainers who have the support of GL Garrad Hassan’s unparalleled experience in the wind
industry. GL Garrad Hassan analyses about 20,000 MW of new projects every year and has undertaken energy assessment of around 25% of all projects worldwide. We have advised on more wind farm developments than any other company in the world.

A one day introductory course for industry professionals looking to learn about wind farm design, giving a thorough overview of the design process. The course is supported by concise notes, examples and practical demonstrations using the latest software. The process of wind farm design involves a number of disciplines and skilled use of sophisticated software tools. Starting from the principles of wind flow, turbulence, wake effects, and ending with optimised energy production and careful environmental analysis, this course provides an excellent grounding. Investment in an understanding of wind farm design can reduce timelines and costs at the development stages of a project. The course uses WindFarmer software to illustrate the concepts and attendees will receive a demonstration copy for follow-up exploration.

Introduction to WindFarmer – 26 October 2012:
The course gives beginners a basic understanding of the software: its functionality, main calculation abilities, and operation. This is achieved through a day of hands-on guided use of the software, incorporating example cases. It builds on the Wind Farm Design course the day before, showing how the methodologies discussed are applied. For new users of WindFarmer the course can be used as introductory training. Please note that although the Introduction to WindFarmer course is available as a stand alone day, we strongly recommend participation in the Wind Farm Design course as preparation.

WindFarmer:
Areas of WindFarmer covered in this course:
- MCP+ Module: Use of measured wind data, Measure Correlate Predict;
- Base Module: Energy calculation, Turbine representation, Noise modelling, Optimisation, Report generation; Visualisation Module: Basic visualisation and animation, ZVI - Zones of visual influence; Shadow Flicker Module.

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Further information:
GL Garrad Hassan is the world’s largest renewable energy consultancy. It offers independent technical and engineering services, products and training courses to the onshore and offshore wind, wave, tidal and solar sectors.

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We invite you to contact us in case of any questions or suggestions you might have. Please find the contact details below. For further information please also refer to www.gl-academy.com. We are looking forward to welcoming you in our seminars.

Kind Regards

Maria Michelle Kurian
GL Academy Coordinator

GL Academy Middle East & Africa
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Dubai. UAE
Tel: +971 4 332 8842
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