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Expert Training – windPRO sound training (for South American users)
Program • Introduction to wind turbine sound • Calculation of wind turbine sound using ISO 9613-2 • Calculation of wind turbine sound using NORD2000 The training is aimed at users who need to set up their sound calculation in accordance with particularly the...
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Expert Training – Online Post Construction training in December
Analyse wind turbine SCADA data, quantify losses, improve pre-construction estimates and lower your AEP uncertainty. After the great amount of interest for the training in September, we have scheduled another training in December. It will take place via Teams on...
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Issue with MERRA2 data from September 2020 – Updated data now in windPRO!
Dear windPRO online-data user As we informed on Tuesday November 3rd, NASA notified us about an issue with the September 2020 release of the MERRA2 data. The notification came with the recommendation not to use the current version of the data. As such, the data was...
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Issue with MERRA2 data from September 2020 – action is recommended!
Dear windPRO online-data user NASA has notified us about an issue with the September 2020 release of the MERRA2 data. This data was released from NASA on October 20th, 2020 and added for distribution in windPRO on October 24th, 2020. The MERRA2 science team at NASA...
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Online windPRO courses – beginning of 2021
January 25-29: Standard course March 1-4: Advanced course March 8-12: Standard course The courses are being taught via GoToMeeting from 8:30-13:00 CET all days. There is a maximum of 6 participants at each course. Register online here where you can also see the course...
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Nu har du mulighed for at deltage i energyPRO kursus online
Kurset afholdes online og med max. 6 deltagere. Inden kurset fremsendes en energyPRO licens, der gælder 1 måned frem, det er altså ikke et krav at du allerede har energyPRO. Tid: 16. november – 19. november, 2020 – kl. 9:00-13:00 hver dag. Indhold: De to første...
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High-resolution Italian DEM– TINITALY – now in windPRO
The Italian Elevation Model – TINITALY – is a seamless digital elevation model that covers the territory of Italy. It is produced by Tarquini et al – using a Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) approach – and built from separate elevation models...
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Test winner
Three years have passed since energyPRO came out as TEST WINNER in the comparison for the holistic simulation of distributed energy systems for the commercial energy supply. Today we are even better: We have added possibilities for optimization of the design, modelling...
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Now in windPRO – Near-Global Forest Canopy Heights
The ”Near-Global Forest Canopy Heights GLAD” dataset is developed from a fusion of GEDI lidar data (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Lidar) and Landsat imagery data. It has a near-global spatial coverage ranging from latitudes S52.0 to N52.0, and it reflects...
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Last advanced windPRO course this year will take place online on October 26-29, 2020
The course runs via GoToMeeting from 8:30-13:00 all days with a maximum number of 6 participants. The course is designed for the experienced user of windPRO – please read more in the course program. Registration can be made online by clicking here – please...
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Online Post Construction training in December
Analyse wind turbine SCADA data, quantify losses, improve pre-construction estimates and lower your AEP uncertainty. After the great amount of interest for the training which just took place, we have scheduled another training in December. It will take place via Teams...
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Farewell to SRTM? A new global elevation model is here!
Over the years, tens of thousands of potential wind farm sites have relied on the excellent Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) data as one of the main data-sources for on-site orography. Many of us are still using SRTM data and more than 50% of all elevation...
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Update of French Orthophoto Mosaic in windPRO
The Institut National de l’Information Geographique et Forestiére (IGN) has begun releasing higher resolution and updated versions of the French orthophotos. In windPRO, we have now replaced the existing 5m resolution version with its higher resolution counterparts;...
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Please join us for a WindSight launch webinar on September 3, at 10:00-11:00 CET
DHI GRAS and EMD International A/S are pleased to invite you to this launch webinar where our experts will introduce you to the five core products of the WindSight data suite and explain how these products can be integrated in wind models to substantially increase the...
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Pit thermal energy storage
Pit thermal energy storage (PTES) combined with solar collector systems and other technologies such as e.g. CHP, ORC, boilers and heat pumps is an attractive solution to utilize long-term stored excess heat and consequently to de-carbonize the heat supply. It can be...
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windPRO is now also SOLAR
Over the last two years, EMD has been working on a new Solar PV module which is now ready in windPRO 3.4. In case you have never worked with solar farms before, don’t worry, the Solar PV module is straight forward to use: Digitize area to fill with panels Define...
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Nu er tilmeldingen til efterårets online energyPRO kursus åbnet
Kurset afholdes online og med max. 6 deltagere. Inden kurset fremsendes en energyPRO licens, der gælder 1 måned frem, det er altså ikke et krav at du allerede har energyPRO. Tid: 16. november – 19. november, 2020 – kl. 9:00-13:00 hver dag. Indhold: De to første...
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New employee
EMD is very proud to announce a new/old team member: Mads V. Sørensen just returned after three years as Senior Consultant. Mads has been in the wind industry since 2001 and has a wealth of experience across the wind energy value chain, ranging from wind resource...
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New sales and support for energyPRO, energyTRADE and energyCHECK in the USA
We would like to welcome Reliability Efficiency & Optimization (REO) based in Miami, Florida, USA as the sales, implementation, training and support solution provider of the best-in-class energyPRO, energyTRADE and energyCHECK offline and real-time energy modeling...
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EU-DEM version 1.1 is now available from within windPRO!
This update provides access to elevation data at a 25m grid resolution from a Pan-European domain. The version 1.1 is improved over the version 1.0 by using ICESat as a reference level along with correcting more than 75000 artefacts found in the version 1.0. Read more...
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Post Construction course – online
– Analyse wind turbine SCADA data, quantify losses, improve pre-construction estimates and lower your AEP uncertainty. Program 09:00 Introduction of Post Construction in the windPRO V3.4 Performance Check module 09:30 Demonstration of new features in windPRO...
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First online windPRO course after the summer holidays – registration now open
Date: September 21-25, 2020. The course will take place over 5 days and cover the same topics as our regular courses Registration: Please register here to secure your seat or contact us with any questions you may have emd@emd.dk...
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Invite to What’s new in energyPRO 4.7
Tuesday 30th June at 11am GMT / 12pm CET Please join us for a live demonstration of the new functionality in the recently released energyPRO 4.7. We’ll be showing you: the new MILP solver calculation method setting electricity market import and export limits...
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Last chance to participate in an online windPRO course before the summer holidays
Our last course (in English) before the summer holidays will take place online next week Monday – Friday from 8:30 – 13:00 CET. Click here to register for June 29 – July 3, 2020. Price € 1440 per participant. There is a maximum of 6 participants (we...
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We have just released energyPRO 4.7
The main new feature in energyPRO 4.7 is the option of using a Mixed Integer Linear Programming solver (MILP). Flexible energy plants providing electricity, heating and cooling represent an important part of future smart energy systems based on renewable energy....
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Did you miss our presentations during WindEurope’s technology workshop last week? Watch it here
EMD presented four different topics and the presentations can be watched by clicking on the headlines above the descriptions of each presentation below. Introduction to Post construction analysis, using windPRO 3.4, 64bit Introduction to Post construction analysis,...
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Release of windPRO 3.4
We are pleased to announce the release of windPRO 3.4. The highlights of this version are a new Solar PV energy calculation module, a new certified TR10 module, streamlined post-construction analysis, and windPRO as a 64-bit application. Download windPRO 3.4 → What...
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We love to bring you the best geospatial datasets for renewable energy modelling!
Let us know if you need even more? Today, accurate energy yield modelling relies on fast and direct access to high quality geospatial datasets for maps, orography, roughness, and reference wind data. In windPRO, we now have approximately 100 geospatial datasets...
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Nu har du mulighed for at deltage i energyPRO kursus online
Kurset afholdes online og med max. 6 deltagere. Inden kurset fremsendes en energyPRO licens, der gælder 1 måned frem, det er altså ikke et krav at du allerede har energyPRO. Tid: 29. juni – 2. juli, 2020 – kl. 9:00-13:00 hver dag. Indhold: De to første...
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Last chance to register for our online windPRO course next week
The course will take place over 5 days and cover the same topics as our regular courses (Online windPRO course). Please register here to secure your seat or contact us with any questions you may have...
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WAsP Bundle – price adjustment from June 30, 2020
Please notice that there will be a minor price adjustment effective from June 30, 2020: Sign-up fee EUR 1360 Annual subscription fee EUR...
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EMD windPRO presentations during WindEurope’s Technology Workshop
Did you see that WindEurope‘s Technology workshop in June is now taking place online on June 8-11 Don’t miss the daily windPRO side events with live presentations of new tools and features for post construction analysis, site & lifetime assessments,...
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Would you like to attend online windPRO training in June?
We only have 2 seats left for the standard training course June 8-12 and the advanced course on June 2-4, 2020. You can easily register by clicking here....
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windPRO online training for Asia
Do you need windPRO training at the moment and do you live in Asia? We have scheduled two online courses on June 15-19 (standard) and June 22-26 (advanced) – the course content is the same and they have been scheduled at a time allowing you to participate during...
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Need windPRO training at the moment?
We now offer online courses. The courses have the same content and have a maximum of 6 participants to ensure the quality of the courses remains high – click here for available dates and to register. We also offer online client courses, which are courses specifically...
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High Resolution Global Land Cover Data – 100m – Now in windPRO
As wind energy analysts, we often find ourselves using land-cover datasets as the starting point of making our roughness classification models. Until now, the spatial resolution of the global land cover datasets has been limited to about 300m. This obviously limits the...
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Corine Land Cover Product – 2018 Version – Now in windPRO
For our European users of windPRO: The Corine Land Cover 2018 version is now available from windPRO 3.3+. This version supersedes the 2012 and 2006 releases, which are still available in windPRO though. The Corine Land Cover product is very popular as a starting point...
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EMD in times of COVID-19
COVID-19 poses a serious threat to the world right now. We have taken all necessary measures to protect the health and safety of our employees and their families in accordance with our national guidelines and restrictions. During this unusual time EMD will continue...
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Web training: Your option for instant windPRO training
Would you also like to improve your windPRO skills? We offer online training sessions tailor-made to your needs and span all options; basic training for beginners, selected module training, advanced training, etc. Please contact emd@emd.dk for a non-binding...
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Online data access in windPRO 3.2
On April 1st 2020 we will close down access to online data from windPRO 3.2. Access from windPRO 3.3 will continue as usual. This follows the normal schedule of closing down the access to online data one year after the release of a new version. To keep access to...
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Danish KU Forest Inventory – Tree Heights Now Available Directly in windPRO
A map of the forest heights for Denmark – derived from a dataset developed by the Danish University of Copenhagen – Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management – is now available as an online data service for users of windPRO 3.3+. If you...
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Organizational changes
At EMD International A/S we want to accelerate our support for a transition into a renewable energy system for the different parts of the world. We believe that hybrid technology is the future – and therefore we have adjusted our organization to support that in the...
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New Belgium-Walloon Elevation Dataset available in windPRO
The Belgium-Walloon 5m and 25m elevation models (Relief de la Wallonie, Modèle Numérique de Terrain (MNT) 2013-2014) are digital terrain models (DTM) produced by EMD from 1m gridded data released by the “Service public de Wallonie (SPW)”. The elevation...
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Vi søger ingeniør med erfaring i fjernvarmeberegninger
Din arbejdsopgave bliver at deltage i videreudviklingen af energyPRO’s netmodel, således at den tilstrækkeligt præcist beregner temperaturer, flow og tryk i fjernvarmenettet. Forholdene i nettet er afgørende for bl.a. varmepumpers og solfangeres effektivitet og...
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New EMD-WRF South Korea (ERA5) Mesoscale data set released
EMD has just launched a new premium EMD-WRF South Korea (ERA5) mesoscale data set based on ERA5 reanalysis data as the global boundary data set used in the WRF model setup. The new data set covers more than 45,000 time series ready to be downloaded instantly through...
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energyPRO 4.6 winter release
The main feature of this release is more flexibility in the use of measuring units. Until now, measuring units in energyPRO have been MW/MWh. With this release you can shift between MW, kW or US units, such as MMBtu, tons of refrigeration and pound of steam. Another...
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Brandenburg High Quality DTM’s – 5m and 20m – Now in windPRO
Two high-quality digital elevation models (DTM’s) in 5m and 20m resolution and covering the German state of Brandenburg have now been added to the online-services of windPRO 3.3. These elevation models are adapted versions of higher resolution models obtained by...
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Workshop – Wind Energy Modelling in Forest using new Satellite Sensors
Is it possible to improve the accuracy of wind resource assessments by using land-surface models obtained with help from a new generation of satellite missions? As a part of the InnoWind project team – with DTU, Vestas, DHI-GRAS, Vattenfall and EMD – we are...
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Meet us at CampusEnergy 2020 in Denver this week
This week Christian Ingerslev Sørensen and Leif Holm Tambjerg are attending CampusEnergy in Denver at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. You can meeet them at table 71. At EMD International A/S we have developed energyPRO the leading software for modelling complex...
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E-world 2020
EMD Deutschland will be attending E-world 2020 in Essen, Germany this week. Please stop by hall 4, stand 4-644 to talk to our colleagues and find out more about the latest innovations in our energyPRO software. For more information about the fair, click here....
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Online data access in windPRO 3.2
On April 1st 2020 we will close down access to online data from windPRO 3.2. Access from windPRO 3.3 will continue as usual. This follows the normal schedule of closing down the access to online data one year after the release of a new version. To keep access to...
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Secure your seat for our energyPRO course in London next week
We still have a few seats left for our energyPRO course taking place on February 6-7. During the two day course you will get an overview of the different functionalities and modules in energyPRO, starting with a simple boiler based project and then moving onto the full...
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Improved flow modelling at cold climate sites through novel land-surface data from satellite sources
On behalf of the InnoWind project team, Morten L. Thøgernsen from EMD will be presenting this topic at the Winterwind conference in Åre, Sweden next week. The presentation will take place on Tuesday February 4th at 11:00-12:30. As wind-analysts, the setup and...
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Fast and cost efficient – EMD-WRF Europe+ MesoScale Data Set advantages
Did you know that the EMD-WRF Europe+ mesoscale data set is offered to windPRO users on annual subscription terms at very attractive prices? With a subscription you will have instant access to more than 2.5 million onshore and offshore time series ready for download...
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windPRO used in more than 100 countries!
Celebrating milestones is important. In 2019 we passed a milestone as our windPRO software package for design and planning of wind farm projects is now used in more than 100 countries around the globe. We are really proud of this and look forward to adding more...
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windPRO courses in French in February
Please notice that we only have a few seats left for our training session « windPRO Initiale Vent » that will take place on 4-6 of February and our training session “windPRO Initiale Enviro” that will take place 6-7 February. Click here to register and secure...
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Berlin and Hamburg – High-Quality Elevation Models – Now in windPRO
Two high-quality digital elevation models for the German states (Bundesländer) of Berlin and Hamburg have now been added to windPRO. Both models are available at a resolution of 5m. Read more at our windPRO wiki: German Berlin Elevation Model German Hamburg Elevation...
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EMD part of DecoWind: new tools for smart regulations of wind turbine noise – The Innovation Foundation invests 13 million DKK in the project
If Denmark is going to be independent of fossil fuels in 2050, the amount of green energy must be substantially enhanced. Wind energy will be the greatest contributor and the amount of energy from wind turbines will have to increase even further to reach this target....
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Tired of waiting for updated reference data? ERA5(T) is now freely available in windPRO to fast-track your decisions!
ERA5(T) in windPRO is a globally comprehensive reference wind dataset with minimal lag in time. Traditional reference datasets, such as ERA5, MERRA2 or ERA-Interim, are available with a lag to real-time of one to three months, which typically results in compromising...
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New validation report for EMD-WRF Europe+
In June 2019 EMD released the new pre-run EMD-WRF Europe+ mesoscale dataset based on ERA5 data (“EMD-EUR+”). See details and prices for EMD-EUR+ here. EMD has now published a report on the validation results for EMD-EUR+. Below a few highlights about...
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