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Onshore Wind Resource Assessment

Interactive wind resource assessment simulator: sample hourly wind speeds from a Weibull distribution at a met mast, scale them to hub height with the wind-shear power law, and watch a turbine's power curve turn that resource into annual energy production and capacity factor in real time.

Energy & Thermodynamics3DModerate60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

Before a single onshore turbine goes up, developers spend a year or more measuring wind at candidate sites and fitting it to a Weibull distribution. This simulator reproduces that process live: a met mast draws hourly wind-speed samples, scales them to hub height through the wind-shear power law, and feeds them through a generic turbine's power curve. Watch the sampled histogram converge onto its theoretical Weibull curve while capacity factor and projected annual energy production settle toward their true values — then change the site's wind climate, hub height, terrain roughness or turbine rating to see how each one moves the numbers.

⚙ Under the hood

Sample hourly wind speeds from a Weibull distribution, scale them to hub height with the wind-shear power law, and watch a turbine's power curve turn that resource into annual energy production and capacity factor in real time.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install