Wind Turbine Systems

How to Model a Wind Turbine System - Summary

You can include one or more wind turbines in your model by following the instructions below.

 

  1. First define the electric side of the wind turbine system at building level on the Generation tab under the On Site Electricity Generation header:
    1. Check the Include electric load centres check box.
    2. Add an Electric load centre and edit the details of the system.
    3. Use one of the AC buss types.
    4. If using storage define the Storage type.
    5. Select the wind turbine on the Generator list tab.
    6. Make sure that having defined a new Electric load centre that the correct one is selected on the HVAC tab.
  2. When the simulation is finished you can view wind turbine contributions in absolute and % terms on the Summary tab: