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As a leading wind energy service provider, DNV understands the project development process and provides technical services consistent with our clients’ business needs. From preliminary site assessment to formal wind resource and energy assessment reports, DNV provides sound analysis and recommendations that support our clients’ decision-making process.

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Project development assistance

DNV works extensively with established and new-entrant developers, investors, municipalities, and private utilities to support their assessment, planning, and implementation of wind energy projects.

Our feasibility, site assessment, and development services include:

  • Feasibility studies and economic analyses
  • Site assessment and site screening
  • GIS mapping and analysis
  • Conceptual designs
  • Value chain analysis
  • Bid evaluation and bid document preparation
  • Project design, layouts, and optimization
  • Turbine technology and procurement strategies
  • Visualization, acoustic and shadow flicker analysis
  • Market assessments
  • Support to local, regional, and national wind energy programs
  • Institutional support and capacity building
  • Outreach and education.

DNV’s technical capabilities span assignments ranging from country- or state-level technical development potential analysis for resource/acquisition plans; to gigawatt and megawatt-scale wind facility development; to community-scale projects; and remote grid wind/diesel applications.

Energy assessments
DNV works cooperatively with clients to provide energy assessments throughout the project development cycle. The level of detail and complexity of these assessments is tailored to meet the client’s needs given the development status of the project. We use wind flow modeling and computational fluid dynamics models based on long-term data sets combined with our professional judgment to generate estimates of gross energy production.

Technical losses and net energy are evaluated based on project-specific analysis of relevant losses including array effects, equipment availability, blade soiling and degradation, controls, line losses, weather, and other sources. Net energy production estimates are evaluated at a range of confidence levels using a proprietary stochastic model developed to evaluate the uncertainty in the assumptions, methods, and losses used in the analysis.


Contact us

Please contact DNV for your wind energy issues and projectswindenergy@dnv.com

Project spotlight

The Massachusetts Technical Collaborative (MTC) in the U.S. has relied on DNV to perform a wide range of services in support of their objective to expand wind energy development in the state.

DNV's work includes desk-level site screening studies to facilitate prioritization and funding decisions. At sites with sufficient development potential, we conduct field assessments and in the process has helped MTC meet their outreach and education objectives while critically analyzing a site for subsequent analysis.

DNV has also prepared detailed feasibility studies that encompass all critical technical, environmental, financial, and community acceptance issues necessary for decision makers and stakeholders to move the project forward.

In the execution phase, DNV has helped design turbine and developer procurement strategies, developed RFP documentation, provided solicitation support and response evaluation, and provided technical assistance in negotiation of turbine purchase agreements.

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