Using the program

1. Home Page of the WindPower program.

2. Return on investment, payback period and cost per kilowatt-hour.

3. Wind turbine power output profile including the zero-power output period.

4. Comparison with field data for a large wind turbine - the Vestas V80 2mW and V90 3mW turbines.

5. Smaller wind turbines -the Evance R9000, Skystream, Bergey Excel and Honeywell RT6000.

6. Comparison with field data for small wind turbines -the Skystream, Fortis Montana and the Turby VAWT.

7. Estimating mean wind speed.

8. The UK Wind Speed Database program.

9. Links to manufacturers' websites.

10. Download page (see below).

11. Reference library.

PelaFlow Consulting

12. About the project and Pelaflow Consulting.

13. Contact us

Technical webpages

14. Wind turbine characteristics

15. Wind speed and power output statistics

16. Calculating the mean power

17. Maximum turbine efficiency - the Betz limit

18. Intermittency of wind power - page 1.

19. Intermittency of wind power - page 2.

10. DOWNLOAD PAGE.
(1) Free WindPower trial program
(2) Buy full WindPower program
(3) Free turbine database
(4) Buy UK Wind Speed Database program

9. Links to wind turbine manufacturers.

There are a very large number of sites dealing with wind turbines and wind power. In the present context, the sites of interest are those of manufacturers of wind turbines. These are the sources of basic data on wind turbines that are needed for the WindPower program. The list below contains only those manufacturers whose turbines are in our database. As turbines are added to the database so this list of manufacturers will expand.

Manufacturers of 'small' turbines - typically from 1 kilowatt to around 100 kilowatts.

Manufacturers of large wind turbines - typically from 100 kilowatts to greater than a megawatt.

Please let us know through our "Contact Us" Web page if there are other manufacturers and wind turbines that should be included in our database. There are some important omissions from the above list because the manufacturers concerned do not include power curve details of their wind turbines on their websites. These are:-

Next is the download Web page from which either a trial version of the program can be downloaded or the full version purchased and downloaded.