Making connections
Crowd-sourced data in the cloud: OpenStreetMap transmission, substation and turbine locations in the Boxkite design interface

Making connections

Cloud computing brings some instant benefits for analysis. It is refreshing to design and analyse a massive wind farm on any old laptop, with the cloud bringing the computational heavy-lift.

Talking to our clients though, easy and quick analysis is one thing, but designing a project often needs many different systems and datasets. This is where the real power of the cloud comes in - connectivity between systems and data.

We're working hard to ensure that Boxkite has best-in-class connectivity.

Transmission systems everywhere

As an example, we've just added some carefully selected parts of the OpenStreetMap dataset to our wind farm design interface. You'll now find data layers showing the transmission system and existing wind turbine locations, everywhere in the world. It is actually quite addictive - cruising around the world looking at how projects are designed to reflect the local constraints and conditions.

Bringing it together: A wind farm in Morocco using 850kW machines, with a 225kW transmission line, and showing a site-specific ERA5 derived wind rose. The wind speed here, based on GWA3, is 7.5 m/s at 100m height.

Integration invitation!

We have more exciting integrations in the pipeline. If you're a data provider that wind farm developers need, and you'd like to talk about integration into Boxkite, do please get in touch.

Try Boxkite

If easy, quick and powerful wind farm design with seamless integrated datasets would improve your development processes then do get in touch for a demo, a trial or an annual licence at [email protected].



Jerry Randall

Founder at Wind Pioneers

7 个月

Lovely job. I would vote for OSM as being the most under-used resource in the whole of the wind industry. It's the Wikipedia of map data - way more accurate than you would expect to be possible... and free!

Chris Pritchett

Renewable Energy, mobility and cleanteach / Board Member: Energy Capital/Tech UK Climate Council

7 个月

Excellent work

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