Vind AI is about empowering your whole team, generalists as well as experts, across all the disciplines involved in wind project assessment and design, from engineers and analysts to project decision-makers.
A: Vind AI’s intuitive user-friendly interface and advanced algorithms make it suitable for generalists as well as experts.
With Vind AI, generalists can complete early project development analysis on their own, like running AEP calculations on selected layouts, assessing access to grid connectivity and analysing noise and shadow. They can run scenarios to compare different technical solutions within a park, as well as compare performance across parks.
Experts are still absolutely essential to the assessment process. But they are looped in later than with traditional ways of working.
A: Faster initial analysis results
Traditionally, generalists rely on experts to complete even initial testing and screening. This delays the generalists' ability to assess a wide range of possible wind project opportunities quickly, as they have to wait for the experts—who are typically juggling many competing analysis requests—to have time to do the analysis and report back.
Bigger initial project funnel
When all technical analysis must be completed by a small number of experts, wind developers are constrained to test only a small number of options, since the experts have limited capacity. Supported by Vind AI’s advanced algorithms, generalists can test many more options than experts would typically have the capacity to test. As a result, wind developers can broaden their funnel initially.
Focusing expert time on viable projects
By equipping generalists to complete more viability analysis sooner, developers can also quickly narrow their project funnel down by filtering out projects that are not viable. In Vind AI, generalists can assess projects holistically from a technical, practical and financial perspective from the start. The experts’ time is then spent only on opportunities that have passed initial screenings for project viability and where their unique expertise can make the biggest difference to developing a strong project.
A: Once generalists have completed initial assessments in Vind AI, they then share the most promising project cases with the experts. The experts can then focus their time on the most valuable opportunities. By targeting the experts on this smaller number of projects, they will have more time to solve difficult problems and come up with the best possible solutions.
With Vind AI, experts are involved at a more optimal part of the project development process. But the process of collaboration between the generalists and the experts is also optimised compared to traditional ways of working.
The smart collaboration features in the platform allow generalists to involve experts as appropriate, directly in Vind AI. By using tagging and commenting options, generalists and experts can discuss and evaluate together much more efficiently than through endless emails, instant messages and meetings. Live syncing across all Vind AI users in your team means everyone—generalists and experts—can work simultaneously and collaborate in real time. Different functions can work on different components of the project at once, and their work will always sync up. If any of the data points and inputs change, everyone’s analysis that uses these data points will automatically update with the latest versions. Vind AI includes built-in project history and a changelog functionality that makes it easy to see who has made which changes when within projects.
A: Not at all! Getting the generalists in your team to use Vind AI is about using everyone’s time and capabilities where they can add the most value, for better results (and a more satisfied team!).
With traditional ways of working, experts often spend significant time on routine tasks that do not stretch them to anywhere near their full abilities. By moving some of this work over to generalists, experts are freed up to spend more time on challenging and rewarding tasks. If you do it right, your generalists using Vind AI for select previous expert tasks empower the experts in your team as well.
“You can do 80% of the work in 20% of the time, which leaves you with more time to evaluate and discuss, Vind AI is a powerful engine which we use now and we see all the potential in it."
Adam Verhoven-Mrosek, Project Analyst Offshore, EnBW
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