Windrose & windfarm layout input format -

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27 Mar 2023 20:39 #12018 by Alvarez
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Hi all,Is it possible to generate a wind rose with the downloaded wind data?..when we import a wind farm layout, SAM expects a file with 2 columns with data in meters (similar to UTM coordinates).  Could someone upload an example file to see the structure?…

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Alvarez

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28 Mar 2023 12:41 #12019 by pgilman
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Hi Alvarez,

SAM does not generate wind rose plots.

The CSV format for wind is described in SAM's Help system, in the "Weather File Formats" section. Attached is an example.

Best regards,
Paul.
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28 Mar 2023 12:50 #12021 by Alvarez
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Hi Paul,

thank you,
in the second question I was referring to how SAM expects the input files regarding importing a wind farm layout.

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Alvarez

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28 Mar 2023 13:05 #12023 by pgilman
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Hi Alvarez,

The file format for the wind farm layout is described in the "Wind Farm" topic in Help. Attached is an example.

Best regards,
Paul.
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28 Mar 2023 16:19 #12024 by Alvarez
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Thank you Paul.

Hi all users,

Any tool that you recommend to make a wind rose with the data downloaded from NREL's windtoolkit? What do you use? I work on OSX Mac System.

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Alvarez

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10 Apr 2023 08:11 #12049 by REFOSSENTHUSIAST
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Hi Alvarez,

As far as I am aware, the only open source tool which can do this is Continuum  (website here) . I haven't used it much myself but it seems quite feature rich! 

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Matt

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