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Choosing Software as a Service (SaaS) or developing your own

The one-time purchase of software on a CD from the 2000s is thankfully not the norm anymore as this system didn’t allow...

Iterating through changes rapidly

Developing an offshore wind farm involves a complex step-by-step process. First, you must decide on a site location,...

No more remote Desktops

As the number of wind farms around the world continues to grow, the complexity of calculating wake efficiency is...

Utilising Youwind for Enhanced Offshore Wind Energy: The Power of Wave Data

The development of the wind energy industry faces several challenges, one of the most critical being the accurate...

How does Youwind handle innovation?

At Youwind, we are constantly working to improve our platform by adding new features to continue to chase technical...

Understanding Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Energy

We can all agree that the offshore wind energy sector is becoming pivotal in the world's efforts to decarbonize the...

How much does the wind blow in your future offshore wind project?

There is absolute consensus within the wind industry, that wind resource is a key input parameter for the initial...

Youwind new tools and features, April 2024

In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind web-based solution:

Cables ‘overlooked’ in early offshore wind cost projections

- Cable failures and electrical losses can have a significant impact on long-term profitability – but cables are often...

Youwind new tools and features, February 2024

In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind web-based solution:

Offshore wind must accelerate early development phases to support busiest year to date - Youwind

Barcelona, 30th January 2024 — With European offshore wind leasing rounds potentially set to award over 80GW in new...

Youwind new tools and features, January 2024

In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind web-based solution: Multicompany feature to...

Youwind new tools and features, November 2023

In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind IT Platform: The possibility of adding a...

Youwind new tools and features, early July 2023

In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind IT Platform: The possibility to take into...

Youwind launches neighbouring wind parks in wake calculations, June 2023

It is summer! 🔅 So fire up the barbecue and invite the neighbours! Well, in the wind energy community, we know that...

Youwind new tools and features, May 2023

We are happy to share with our users that the May updates include several exciting new tools and improvements for...

Youwind new tools and features, March 2023

We are happy to share with our users that the March updates include several extensions of the Youwind model and Area...

New features for further acceleration of offshore wind!

A particularly development-intensive period lies behind us at Youwind. We are happy to share with our users that the...

Providing the right tools for the challenges that matter: The North Sea Summit

Three months ago Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands pledged to jointly have at least 150GW of offshore wind...

Wind Europe Electric City 2021 in Copenhagen: Awarded most innovative start-up finalist by the Innovation Park!

Youwind Renewables attended the fair with a stand inside the Innovation Park section. Many fruitful talks with...

Welcome to the team, Claudia!

Today we are pleased to welcome Claudia Olivares to Youwind Renewables in our office based in Barcelona.

We made it finalist to Elia Group Open Innovation Challenge!

Our IT solution OptiWindow brought the attention of the jury for its user-friendliness and calculation power when...

Offshore wind farm development stages

Development is a challenging task and without a doubt, the most important one is to plan each production, cost, and...

New Danish offshore wind farm tenders opening

Last summer Belgium achieved a total of 1.775MW installed offshore wind capacity with the completion of Northwester 2...

ITT for Round 4 in the UK has now opened

Invitation to Tender (ITT) Stage 1 for Round 4 in the UK was opened last week. The Crown Estate offers this tender for...

Offshore wind turbine swept area and rated power

The development of offshore wind turbine size has been astonishing over the last two decades. The size increase of the...

Goldwind 8MW prototype unveiled

Chinese wind turbine supplier, Goldwind, launched today the prototype of a new offshore wind turbine with a turbine...

AEP calculations uncertainties

Many users needed to have implemented uncertainty calculations to their scenarios so we went right ahead and added that...

Permits for Hollandse Kust (Zuid) Wind Farm Sites III and IV (760 MW) have been issued to Vattenfall

On July 10th, 2019, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy announced the permits for Hollandse Kust (zuid)...

Yowind attempts to predict the Hollandse Kust Zuid III & IV Winner

On 10th July 2019, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy is set to reveal the winner of the...

Edward Ridgway presents YOUWINd model at RenewableUK GOW 2019

We launched our latest version of the YOUWINd financial simulation platform at the Renewable UK Global Offshore Wind...

South Holland Coast 3 & 4 cost development

This week the offshore wind power giant, Ørsted, announced they will participate in the bid for the Dutch offshore wind...

Edward Ridgway joins the Youwind team

Edward Ridgway has joined the YOUWINd model team as a Partner. Edward brings substantial experience in engineering...

Siemens Gamesa Launches 10+ MW Offshore Wind Turbine

This week the wind power giant announced a new wind turbine that we have not had in the YOUWINd model calculations...

Comparing Orsted financial calculations with the YOUWINd model

Today Orsted published their new ambitious goals for the coming years: “Ørsted sets new, ambitious targets for the...