User type
Project developers and Foundations Designers
Integrate DNV engineering and cost models directly into your feasibility, cost modelling and concept site design workflows. Call single models, sub-systems or a full end-to-end system of models including component design and CAPEX, operations modelling and energy yield and performance. Renewables.Architect enables rapid site screening, concept design, and layout optimization with uncertainty quantification to support investment decisions.Models can be called from python scripts, Excel workbooks or fully fledged systems design tools. The models can be used to plug gaps or to upgrade in-house modelling tools, or as a second opinion as part of risk basedanalysis and decision making. Renewables.Architect calculations scale elastically, allowing you to run hundreds or even thousands of scenarios in parallel, and to explore the full design space for your project.
Core features
- Site-specific substructure concept design and clustering (fixed and floating)
- Cable routing, substation positioning and array layout optimization
- Turbine size selection and cost trade-off analysis through connected energy yield, CAPEX and OPEX modelling
- LCOE driven Layout optimization, incorporating substructures, cables, and energy yield (using Windfarmer or PyWake)
- Risk analysis and uncertainty quantification to address site uncertainty in soil profiles and environmental conditions
Use cases
- Rapid site screening and selection
- Develop a concept design for a site to inform leasing and allocation round bidding
- Kick-start the FEED process with an automatically generated preliminary design
- Project-level optimization and uncertainty analysis
