Experienced
Vortex started its technology development in 2007 by former wind engineers (with more than 20 years of experience), atmospheric physicists and computer experts in a unusual collaborative team of experienced professionals with researchers. Learn more about our principals here
Our products have been designed after intensive dialog with the wind industry and, due to Vortex open business model, we benefit from a continuos feedback of our clients.
Independent
Vortex is a private company, owned by its members and independent of manufacturers, developers, consultancy firms or any other business related with the wind industry.
We have developed our own technology and do not depend on third parties to modify it. Both hardware (a supercomputer cluster located in Barcelona) and software are fully maintained by our team.
Supported
At Vortex we are not alone: our technology is based on WRF, a state-of-the-art non-linear flow code developed through a collaborative effort by several atmospheric research centers and supported by an active community of more than 10,000 users
To guarantee the scientific quality of our work, we receive advice from researchers at the Physics Department of the Universitat de Girona.
Acknowledgments
Vortex has grown with the aid of SECOT, UdG, CIDEM, CDTI and Barcelona Activa.
Vision
Vortex vision is fully aligned with the recommendations expressed by Working Group 1 of the EWEA's European Wind Energy Platform regarding priorities in wind assessment development for the coming years:
Vortex is a member of:
Ideally, the results of the research should be applied worldwide, by means of an easy-to-use numerical wind atlas for resource and extreme winds. By 2030, the wind energy industry is expected to make use of fast, accurate, high-resolution and comprehensive wind atlas calculations in a wide range of climatic conditions and settings, including coastal, offshore and highly complex terrain.(...)
The comprehensive wind atlas calculation includes annual and seasonal/monthly climatological mean and extreme wind statistics, with estimates of variability and uncertainty. The resulting data should be in a form that can be used subsequently in other software, such as GIS.
The available wind statistics will include wind speed distributions and turbulence parameters, which are all necessary for wind turbine specifications and will lead to refined classification schemes.(...)
Wind conditions are less well validated in complex terrain, coastal/offshore locations and above the surface layer than in simple, flat terrain. A high degree of collaboration between the wind energy and meteorology communities is a prerequisite for the continual development of wind atlases and improve understanding of wind conditions in these locations.
