After the seminar participants will be able to

• After the seminar participants will be able to
• Understand wind resource assessment and discuss the factors relevant for micro-siting of turbines
• Name key considerations in designing wind farm layouts
• Enumerate key technical specifications for wind turbines, towers, and BoP components
• Explain the main areas of evaluation for suppliers and service providers for maintenance contracts, and describe the evaluation process
• Describe system-level fault diagnostics and explain why it matters during testing and commissioning
• Describe the scope of testing and commissioning and explain different types of tests conducted
• List typical content of O&M manuals and discuss how to ensure effective transfer of O&M manuals through training measures
• Enumerate structured data reporting processes for wind parks, explain how to leverage data for performance optimisation, while ensuring data security

• Professionals and decisionmakers in wind energy project development and planning, public policy, infrastructure planning, and finance with a focus on wind energy

• Conducting wind resource assessments and micro-siting of turbines
• Designing wind farm layouts, including turbine placement and electrical interconnection
• Analysing wind energy yield using tools like WindPro or WAsP
• Ensuring compliance with international standards
• Preparing technical specifications for wind turbines, towers, and Balance-of-Plant (BoP) components
• Evaluating suppliers and service providers for maintenance contracts
• Structuring contracts for long-term turbine performance guarantees
• Validating turbine power curves and grid compliance
• Conducting system-level fault diagnostics and corrective actions
• Ensuring seamless grid integration and power evacuation
• Testing & Commissionning process
• Compiling and Transferring O&M Manuals
• Training Staff on Turbine Operations and Monitoring
• Establishing Data Reporting and Analysis Protocols

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Module 1: Wind resource

A participant who met the objectives of this module should be able to

• Apply the wind power density calculation, the vertical wind shear profile and surface roughness
• Apply the mathematical description of wind shear with the logarithmic law and the Hellmann power law and conduct the calculation of wind shear exponent and roughness length with measured wind speed data
• Describe a wind speed distribution with the Weibull equation with shape parameter and scale parameter and understand the shape of different wind speed distribution curves

Module 2: Technology

A participant who met the objectives of this module should be able to

• Explain the standard horizontal-axis wind turbine configuration
• Recognize the development wind turbine rotor diameter and hub height and understand the advantages and disadvantages of longer rotor blades
• Calculate the specific wind turbine power
• Explain wind farm generator type “double fed induction generator” and type “fully converted turbine”

Module 3: Offshore wind trends

A participant who met the objectives of this module should be able to

• Describe actual trends regarding turbine size, wind farm location, wind turbine rated capacity, wind farm size, water depth and distance to shore and floating wind turbines
• Explain industry activity and the supply chain regarding turbine manufacturers, substructures, foundations, vessels and cables
• Describe investment and operation cost trends

Module 4: Annual energy generation

A participant who met the objectives of this module should be able to

• Distinguish between free, gross and net annual energy generation
• Describe and illustrate the characteristics of a wind turbine power curve
• Calculate the annual wind energy yield using measured wind speed data and wind turbine power curves and compare outputs from different turbines
• Apply full load hours and capacity factors to estimate the annual energy generation

Module 5: Economics

A participant who met the objectives of this module should be able to

• Define levelised cost of energy (LCOE) and internal rate of return (IRR)
• Describe cost trends and drivers for LCOE of wind power
• Calculate fundamentals regarding debt, equity, IRR, LCOE of wind projects

Module 6: Short term wind power forecast and balancing power needs (power system integration)

A participant who met the objectives of this module should be able to

• Name fundamental steps of short term wind power forecast and distinguish between a physical and statistical approach for wind power forecast
• Define short term wind power forecast errors

• Professionals with no or little wind power knowledge and bachelor degree or comparable professional experience
• Persons who would like to learn fundamentals of the annual energy generation, wind resource, technology, offshore wind power trends, economics and power system integration (short term wind forecast and balancing power needs)

• Module 1: Wind resource
• Module 2: Technology
• Module 3: Offshore wind trends
• Module 4: Annual energy generation
• Module 5: Economics
• Module 6: Short term wind power forecast and balancing power needs (power system integration)

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Needs assessment

After the seminar participants will be able to:

• Describe the development of wind power in different regions of the world
• Assess the wind resource and calculate the wind energy yield of a wind farm and individual wind turbines
• Compare the energy output of different wind turbines for a specific site
• Recognize the effect of various losses on the energy yield
• Apply fundamental steps of wind farm planning and avoiding environmental conflicts
• Explain the design of wind turbines with/without gear boxes
• Apply a methodology to identify areas suitable for wind farms

• People who like to start a job in the wind sector or to get familiar with the learning objectives

• Market development
• Annual energy production
• CAPEX, OPEX and LCOE
• Wind power technology (rotor blades, pitch control, tip speed ratio, power coefficient, gear box, gear-less concepts, generator and inverter concepts)
• Power output control power curves
• Wind resource assessment and measurement equipment
• Wind power density, wind shear profiles, wind speed variability and wind speed distribution,wind speed extrapolation with logarithmic law and the power law
• Wind farm planning method
• Site assessment and sites suitable for wind energy
• Global IEC quality standards
• Environment, shadow and noise
• Software tools overview for professional energy yield calculation and project planning

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Needs assessment

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify fundamental wind farm planning and construction steps
• Estimate the duration of the wind farm planning steps
• Identify software for different purposes around wind power generation
• State the purpose of measured wind data
• Explain why it is important to measure the wind resource at the project site

• People who are interested in an overview on planning of wind farms and wind measurement

• Wind farm planning and design
• Wind measurement
• Software overview

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Needs assessment

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the use and development of time series for variable renewable energy
• Present the basics about power system operation, scheduling and forecasting
• Describe the purpose and types of balancing power and management of grid congestion
• Discuss capacity planning methodologies, grid codes and the development of grid studies

• Professionals from the energy sector

• Time Series of Variable Renewable Energies
• System Operation: Scheduling and Forecasting
• Balancing Power Calculation Methodology
• Management of Grid Congestion
• Capacity Planning
• Grid Code Development
• Grid and System Integration Studies

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Needs assessment