Wind turbine (Indicator)

General

The Wind turbine Indicator calculates the amount of wind turbines in the project area and gives the amount of generated power in MW. First the current situation is calculated and compared to the planned situation. By setting a target value it is possible to plan scenario's to experimend in reching a energy goal. For example, the target for the generated power in the project area is 10 MW. This target needs to be reached by planning both large and normal wind turbines in the project area. 

Indicator panel

The MKP Green indicator.

The indicator panel shows the following information:

• The amount of current turbines
• The amount of current large turbines
• The amount of planned turbines
• The amount of planned large turbines
• The total amount of generated power in MW
• The score per area

Calculation

The indicator calculates the amount of wind turbines in order to calculate how much MW is generated. The normal size turbine generates 1 MW and the large turbine generates 3 MW. The amount of MW generated per turbine is based on this source [windcentrale]. The following formula is used:

(amount of turbines normal * 1MW)+(amount of turbines large * 3MW)= total amount of MW

Score

The score is represented in a progress bar, with a scale from 0 to 100%. Determine if you want to calculate the absolute or relative score. In general, the more green is present in an area, the higher the score is.

Additional configurations

For this indicator, the Global TARGET_POWER needs to be added. Also the Attribute POWER needs to be addes to the functions "Windmill" and "Windmill (Large)" needs to be added to the function values.