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Offshore wind studio.

An offshore array running the real Jensen wake model. Each turbine leaves a slower, expanding wake behind it, so pack the rows along the wind and the back turbines starve. Drag the layout, swing a real wind day in off the North Sea, and let the optimiser claw the megawatts back.

Hollandse Kust Zuid · 97% of ideal

Live sim: gust streaks, swell and rotors all ride the same wind. Switch to 2D to drag turbines.

WIND DAY · Hollandse Kust Zuid · drag to scrub LIVE 2026-11-03
3.5CUT-IN13RATED0m/s128MW001223

12:00 · 9.9 m/s from ENE (69°) · farm 53.7 MW

1886 MWh today wake loss 136 MWh (6.7%) peak 112 MW wind farm MW
PER-TURBINE OUTPUT 53.7 / 128 MW
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Most waked: T1 sees 9.5 m/s of 9.9 (−4%) and makes 3.0 of 8 MW.

clean air light wake heavy wake
POWER CURVE · click to set wind 164 m · 8 MW
PARKEDPARTIAL LOADRATEDCUT-OUT3.51325m/s80MWT1: 9.5 m/s → 2.98 MWT2: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT3: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT4: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT5: 9.5 m/s → 2.98 MWT6: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT7: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT8: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT9: 9.5 m/s → 2.98 MWT10: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT11: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT12: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT13: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT14: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT15: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MWT16: 9.9 m/s → 3.44 MW

Each dot is a turbine at the wind it actually sees. Wakes slide dots down the ramp and cost power; once every dot sits on the flat top, wakes cost nothing.

FARM READOUT
FARM POWER 53.7MW of 55 MW wake-free
EFFICIENCY 97% array efficiency
WAKE LOSS 3% 1.4 MW lost
CAP FACTOR 42% of nameplate
INSTALLED 128MW 16 × 8 MW
WIND 9.9m/s Partial load · ENE
CONTROLS
LAYOUT OPTIMISER
OPTIMISE FOR

1.4 MW lost to wakes

Optimises for this wind only. Expect the layout to do worse from other directions.

DIRECTION SENSITIVITY
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WORST FROM E (90°) · 62% BEST FROM N (10°) · 100% NOW FROM ENE · 69° Efficiency by inflow bearing at 9.9 m/s. Rings at 60–100%. Click to swing the wind.
FARM ADVISOR
  • OUTPUT Farm output 53.7 MW, 97% of the wake-free ideal, capacity factor 42%. ▸ This is the megawatt feed that would dispatch into the grid as wind.