What this article covers
Before you run analyses or optimise layouts, it's worth making sure your project inputs reflect your site as accurately as possible. This article walks you through adding and customising turbine types, setting up your configurations, and applying them to see how different inputs affect your results — the three foundations that shape everything you'll see in Vind.
How to set up your project inputs
1. Add and customise Components
Open Components from the top menu and navigate to Turbines. Here you can browse the available turbine library, add turbines to your project, and adjust their specifications.
You have two options for adding turbines:
Use an existing turbine from the library — search for the turbine type relevant to your site and add it directly. You can adjust the power rating if the available specification doesn't match your project exactly.
Create a generic turbine — if your specific turbine isn't in the library, create a new generic type and add the correct power and thrust curve and technical specifications manually or by uploading. This is also useful for early-stage site screening where exact turbine selection hasn't been made yet.
Once your turbine is set up, it will be available to select in the Layout tool and will feed into all analyses in your project.
2. Set up your configurations
Open Configuration from the top menu. This is where you control the inputs that shape every analysis in your project. Vind AI gives you five configuration types — each one lets you define a specific set of assumptions, save them by name, and switch between them to see how different inputs affect your results.
Analysis — control the inputs to your energy yield assessment, including wake settings, electrical losses, fixed losses, curtailments, and uncertainties.
Wind — define the wind data source for your project, using Vind AI's built-in datasets or your own uploaded data, and calibrate it to your site. Use the Wind wizard for a guided setup, or create manually for full control.
Financial — set up a consistent set of cost assumptions to use across different parks or layout alternatives.
Regulatory — configure settings for noise and shadow flicker.
Create a configuration for each type relevant to your project, give it a descriptive name, and save. You can create as many as you need and mix and match them in your analysis.
3. Apply your configurations and turbines
With your turbines and configurations in place, select your park by clicking on it. Open Production analysis in the right-side panel and switch between the configurations you've created to see how different inputs affect your results. Try changing the analysis configuration from the default to the one you just created — watch how the numbers respond and get a feel for how sensitive your results are to different assumptions.
The same logic applies across all analysis types — swap configurations in the panel, compare the outputs, and use what you learn to refine your inputs.
Good to know
Changes to turbine specifications apply to the current branch only — if you want the same turbine across multiple projects, set it up in the Library.
Configurations are project-level settings, meaning they're available across all branches in your project.
You can return to Components and Configuration at any time to refine your inputs — you don't need to get everything perfect before running your first analysis.
If you're working with neighbouring turbines that aren't in the library, the generic turbine option is the quickest way to represent them accurately in your wake analysis.