Advanced precision and performance for every offshore project
From area screening, to layout optimisation, yield modelling and financial planning, Youwind brings together all the features you need to develop offshore wind farms with speed, accuracy and multi-team collaboration.
Offshore wind farm optimisation
- Youwind combines in average fifteen years of offshore advisory expertise who developed the advanced digital tools to optimise turbine layouts, site screening workflow, and validated energy yield assessment.
- Simulate internal and external wake losses with our validated models and perform layout optimisation based on site-specific constraints, capacity and turbine and foundation types.
- The platform enables validated accurate AEP calculations using both time-domain and statistical approaches, ensuring every development stage meets performance standards.
Financial and cost modelling
- Youwind allows for a seamless combination of technical inputs and financial estimations within the same environment without switching tools.
- Perform bottom-up costs assessments through detailed breakdown of DEVEX, CAPEX, OPEX and ABEX for any scenario.
- Make advanced financial assessments by integrating bankable yield and cost assumptions for derisking investments by optimizing LCoE.
- Include future neighboring wind farms with sensitivities on subsidies schemes and power purchase agreements (PPAs).
Built for collaboration and security offshore wind platform
- Youwind enables seamless collaboration across yield, turbine, foundation, electrical, logistics, financial, and GIS teams, keeping everyone aligned within a single, secure environment.
- Multiple stakeholders can work on shared scenarios simultaneously, staying updated on project progress in real time, with transparent permissions and roles management.
- Scenarios can be compared intuitively, making it easier to identify the optimal with most efficient and financially sound configuration without switching between tools.
GIS-based offshore constraint analysis
- Organize all GIS data with the intuitive map of the platform, whether from Youwind presets from official datasets or uploaded by you. Youwind offers preset library of thousands of data layers such as bathymetry, ground conditions and offshore wind areas worldwide.
- Identify, upload or draw areas that are exclusion zones for wind farms such as protected areas or areas with environmental challenges where wind turbines, grid points or cables cannot be placed. The data used in in standard GIS formats ensuring compatibility of any GIS tools.
- Ensure control of changes and share the most updated datasets with a link external data from tools like QGIS and ArcGIS.
"Offshore wind development is a complex puzzle. We want to turn that complexity into clarity combining data, experience, and technology to help teams make the right choices, faster."
Offshore wind platform technical features
Youwind brings together a comprehensive set of advanced validated technical features to model and optimise offshore wind projects efficiently. From wind resource assessment and layout optimisation to logistics planning, each module is designed to offer depth, usability, and accuracy.
Wind Resource
Quickly access validated wind datasets from Vortex that enables you to quickly get started with assessing the potential of any area worldwide. The Youwind wind resource analysis supports any uploaded time series or wind resource grid files to assess resource quality, uncertainty, and energy potential by interpreting results at any turbine position.
Area Screening
Evaluate, explore and optimise new areas and designs in minutes by screening global wind development zones with built in and weekly updated GIS data. Evaluate area constraints and exclusion zones such as shipping routes, environmental zones, and proximity to substations, and generate LCoE heatmaps for area comparison.
Layout Optimisation
Create and compare multiple layout options using regular, staggered, irregular or micrositing-based designs. Visualise wake effects, estimate losses, and automatically generate layout scenarios with cloud-based computing in minutes.
Validated Advanced Wake Models
Run wake and blockage simulations with advanced models such as TurbOPark, N.O. Jensen, and Eddy Viscosity. Analyse internal and external wake losses and use the system in pinpointing the insights on wind conditions and wake effects incluiding data uncertainty in a cloud environment.
Site Suitability
Ensure turbine compatibility by applying IEC standards (IEC 61400-1 ed. 2, 3, amendment 1, and draft 4). Evaluate turbulence intensity turbulence intensity class turbine design, terrain complexity, and wind sector management strategies for compliance and performance.
Foundation Design
Select appropriate foundation types based on bathymetry, turbine specs, and soil profiles. Estimate monopile and jacket weights, as well as mooring systems for floating technologies. Youwind allows for multiple foundation types for any offshore wind project worldwide.
Electric System Design
Generate, optimise and compare array and export cable layouts and cable routing with bathymetry, availability, losses and reactive compensation. Assess overplanting scenarios, and define offshore substation positions and landing points. Youwind performs electrical loss calculations based on flow analysis and park production which can be easily compared to different electrical designs.
Offshore Wind Logistics
Plan installation and preventive maintenance activities with full task breakdowns, dependencies, and weather window logic. Use the algorithm to define optimal starting dates and reduce weather downtime.
Preset Libraries with API and data portability
Start faster with preloaded data for turbines, cables, foundations, and more. Store, manage and customise and your libraries securely with locks, duplicates, and full change logs for team control and traceability. Grant or restrict access to specific library items of project levels.
Bankable Yield Assessment
Generate robust P50 and P90 yield assessments by combining wake, electrical, and curtailment losses. Factor in air density, availability, uncertainty, and other real-world conditions for bankable results.
IT security
SSO single sign on and 2FA authentication capability and intensive cyber security measures applied to users data.
Automatic Reporting
Generate customised reports directly from the dashboard, with access to all statistics and data for each layout—presented in clear tables and visual graphics. Reports can be downloaded in PDF or CSV format for easy sharing and further analysis.
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Frequently Asked Questions
ALL FAQSIs it possible to compare different scenarios and layouts?
Yes, you will be able to compare different scenarios and see the main differences in the "Project Overview and Finance" section.
How are TurbOPark and N.O. Jensen wake models verified?
For Turbopark, Ørsted has provided a comparison case on https://github.com/OrstedRD/TurbOPark/blob/main/TurbOParkExamples.pdf. <br />
For the N.O. Jensen model (NOJ), we use the implementation of PyWake, for which a validation report is provided in: https://topfarm.pages.windenergy.dtu.dk/PyWake/validation.html
Does Youwind assess the effective Turbulence Intensity for each turbine position?
Yes, the effective turbulence is set on each turbine position based on the wake model applied on top of the ambient turbulence.
What GIS layers are included in the Youwind platform?
Youwind includes relevant areas for your wind farm design that are publically available, from designated areas for wind farms to technical and environmental constraints, human activities,such as vessel density, fishing activities, existing infrastructure of cables and pipelines and other useful data for calculations, such as harbours and onshore electrical substations. Youwind also displays the depth contour and the wind map from Vortex FdC.
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