Wind Farm Concept & Layout Design
Optimizing Wind Farm Layouts for Performance and Feasibility
Wind farm layout design requires balancing energy yield, technical constraints, environmental requirements, and practical construction considerations. Turbine positioning must account for wake interactions, terrain conditions, permitting restrictions, and stakeholder requirements while ensuring long-term operational performance.
Voltares develops optimized wind farm concepts that integrate engineering analysis, environmental constraints, and practical construction considerations. Our layouts support efficient project development and provide a strong foundation for permitting and detailed design.
Our Solution
Layout optimization using advanced wind-field modelling to maximize energy production while minimizing wake losses.
Construction feasibility assessment including cut-and-fill analysis and terrain optimization.
Assessment of site-specific conditions including turbulence intensity, extreme wind parameters, and turbine load implications.
Evaluation of shadow flicker, noise propagation, visual and ecosystemic impacts to support permitting requirements.
Optimization of access roads, crane pads, internal cabling routes, and grid connection points.
Integration of land ownership structures, environmental protection zones, and ecological constraints into layout design.
Head of Consulting
Martin Hölzli
Track Record
Over 16 years of experience in wind energy consulting and project development, covering site feasibility assessments, wind resource analysis, turbine layout optimisation, technical planning and permitting support. He has contributed to the development of five wind parks across all project phases, including the preparation of five technical planning submissions with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA/UVE) coordination, and has carried out around 30 wind farm layout and design studies. His work includes wind modelling and terrain analysis using WindPRO, WindSim, QGIS and AutoCAD, with project experience across Europe.
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Our experienced planning team works in an interdisciplinary, technology-driven and solution-oriented manner.
martin.hoelzli@voltares.com +43 660 8597237