In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind IT Platform:
- The possibility to take into account local soil conditions in foundation costing
- Calculation of Export cable availability based on the length of the cables
As always, you can write to info@youwindrenewables.com to get further information or help from our offshore wind experts.
Impact of soil conditions on foundation costing
Youwind is now updated with engineering functions that adjust the weight of monopiles or jackets to local soil conditions when analyzing potential locations for fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines.
The soil conditions that can be extracted directly in the Youwind platform are categorized as follows:
- Mud to muddy sand
- Sand
- Coarse-grained sediment
- Mixed sediment
- Rock & boulders
The available datasets that are part of this current update are the following:
- Europe (Source: EUSeaMap – Broad-scale Seabed Habitat Map for Europe)
- Australia (Source: Spatial Analysis of Biophysical Variables by Geoscience Australia)
- US Pacific (Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard Version 4.0 – Federal Geographic Data Committee).
More datasets that cover the rest of the world will follow in the coming weeks.
As an example, the different types of soil conditions in Portugal can be seen in the figure below.