Foundation Cost and Suitability Optimization in Offshore Wind Design

With Youwind’s latest update, developers can now evaluate multiple foundation technologies within a single scenario, adapting to local seabed soil conditions, depth ranges, and cost drivers. This new functionality allows you to instantly analyze cost impacts and foundation suitability at every turbine location, whether it is bottom-fixed or floating technologies.

By enabling automatic or manual foundation assignment, and by accounting for real-world installation constraints, Youwind brings new levels of design flexibility and technical precision to your wind park layouts — right from the earliest stages.

Evaluate multiple foundations in a single scenario  

Youwind now gives the possibility to evaluate the use of multiple foundations in a wind park scenario. Meaning that:  

• Youwind gives the option to automatically assign a foundation to each wind turbine location from a selected set of foundations.  
• The foundation assignation minimizes the foundation costs (fabrication and installation) at each wind turbine location.  
• Several foundations can be used in one wind park in a scenario, so foundation costs and suitability are optimized.  
• Manual assignation of foundation per turbine location is enabled.  

Define depth constraints per foundation  

New parameters are added in the foundation library in order to identify the foundation’s water depth installation suitable ranges.

With that update, Youwind ensures that the automatically assigned foundations meet the defined water depth level requirements. By modelling these real-world constraints with precision, developers can achieve more accurate CAPEX estimations, adaptable layouts, and better-informed decisions — all within a single, integrated platform.