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Wind expert app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 3696 ratings )
Utilities Reference
Developer: Mic-Apps Limited
9.99 USD
Current version: 3.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 30 Jan 2012
App size: 12.6 Mb

Wind expert, the most comprehensive wind energy database on the app Store.

Supports all iOS devices.

Wind expert brings together all the tools and information required to evaluate, understand and optimise any wind turbine or wind project from aerodynamic to financial performance. Wind expert provides wind intelligence readily available in the palm of your hand.

As seen on WindPower Engineering & Development:
http://www.windpowerengineering.com/featured/business-news-projects/wind-news-an-wind-app-for-professionals/

MANAGE YOUR WIND PROJECTS --------------------
- Build your own wind turbine or copy specification from built-in database
- Define site characteristics
- Setup project costs and economics
- Copy, save and load projects
- 7 pre-filled project templates

BUILT-IN COMPONENT COST MODEL (new in version 2.0) --------------------
- Full detailed cost model based on NREL validated cost model
- Simple entry sheet
- Get detailed component mass breakdown
- Get detailed component cost breakdown
- Accurate estimation of land lease, O&M and replacement cost
- Evaluate the Cost of Energy
- Model valid for any horizontal axis wind turbine above 750kW

UNLIMITED RESOURCES --------------------
- Built-in Wind Turbine database with over 530 pre-defined specifications from existing OEM (to be expanded further in next releases)
- Includes residential turbines below 10kW
- Includes community and utility-scale generators up to 10MW
- Includes both Horizontal and Vertical Wind Turbines
- Built-in tools database for quick access to specific wind related associations, models, country-specific government incentives and a full range of market reports
- Built-in Market Place with quick links to wind related conferences, open vacancies for wind professionals, distributors, developers and providers

EFFICIENT INTERFACE --------------------
- Simple and yet detailed interface
- Simply rotate device to switch between project setup and graphical analysis
- Universal app for iPhone, iPod and iPad !
- Retina display
- Compatible with iPhone 5 tall retina display

FULL CONTROL OF YOUR PROJECT --------------------
- Turbine size, efficiency, operating range, availability and power output
- Site wind regime, turbulence
- Project costs including installation and servicing
- Include government incentives (Feed in Tarifs) and tax depreciation
- Set your own Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Take into account general and energy inflation

DETAILED ANALYSIS --------------------
- Factual and quantitative analysis
- Weibull wind distribution
- Full economic report including annual Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return and earnings
- Cost of Energy over lifetime of project and early
- Break-even analysis

GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS --------------------
- Turbine Power Curve from available energy, Betz limit, aerodynamic and grid available power
- Annual energy production over site average mean wind speed
- Net Present Value over project full life span
- Cost of Energy comparison over project full life span
- Adjust graphs scaling

TARGET AUDIENCE --------------------
- Wind project developers
- Wind turbine designers
- Prospective wind turbine buyers
- Students in wind energy
- Wind turbine distributors
- Investors in wind projects

Full list of wind turbines available at http://www.mic-apps.com/windexpert-list.html