Hello Windy Community,
I am happy to share that I have published my first plugin for the Windy platform, which I enjoy using very much.
The plugin is called Wind & Solar Power Forecast, and it is designed to estimate short-term power generation for wind power plants and solar power plants directly on the Windy map.
The main purpose of this plugin is to use Windy weather model data to create estimated power generation curves for renewable energy plants. Users can add wind and solar plants on the map, define installed capacity and coordinates, and then generate forecast results based on available meteorological model data.
Main Features
- Add wind power plants and solar power plants on the Windy map
- Forecast using ECMWF, ICON, or both models
- 15-minute interpolated generation forecast
- MW and MWh display modes
- Interactive plant-based charts
- CSV/TSV export for forecast results
- Polygon-based area definition for solar power plants
- Detailed wind turbine modeling with turbine coordinates, hub height and capacity
- OpenStreetMap power grid overlay
- Live OSM/Overpass queries and offline country datasets
- GeoJSON/KML import and export
- Turkish and English UI support
How to Use
- Open the plugin on Windy.
- Go to the Plants tab and add a new wind power plant or solar power plant.
- Enter the plant name, installed capacity, latitude/longitude and technology-specific parameters.
- For solar power plants, you can optionally draw a polygon representing the plant area.
- For wind power plants, you can optionally define individual turbine coordinates, hub height, capacity and turbine parameters.
- Go to the Forecast tab and select ECMWF, ICON, or Both.
- Run the forecast to view MW/MWh charts and tabular results.
- Export the results as CSV/TSV, or back up plant data as KML/TSV.
- In Settings, you can also enable the OpenStreetMap power grid layer to inspect nearby electrical infrastructure.
Important Note
This plugin is not a SCADA system, an official production forecasting system, a commercial-grade or bankable energy assessment tool, or certified engineering software.
The results may be affected by Windy layer availability, selected weather model, browser performance, and terrain/elevation. Forecast outputs should be considered approximate and mainly intended for planning, visualization and analysis.
Possible Future Development
If there is interest from the community, I would like to continue improving the plugin with additional forecasting and analysis features.
Some possible future development ideas are:
- Short-term solar power ramp-up and ramp-down analysis caused by cloud movement and sudden cloud cover changes
- Better short-term solar production forecasting by using cloud cover, irradiance and temperature changes more dynamically
- Improved wind power forecasting using higher-resolution local sampling, such as maximum 9×9 km or 7×7 km grid-based analysis where available
- Wind forecast correction using elevation data, terrain effects and turbine hub-height calculations
- More detailed wind turbine-level aggregation for wind farms
- Better comparison between ECMWF and ICON model outputs
- Additional export formats and reporting options
- More advanced OpenStreetMap power grid filtering and visualization features
- Performance improvements for large plant lists and large offline power grid datasets
Feedback and Contributions
Feedback from users testing the plugin would be very valuable.
Please feel free to contact me under this forum topic for bug reports, missing features, improvement ideas or usage feedback.
I would especially appreciate feedback on:
- Forecast performance in different regions
- ECMWF / ICON model comparison
- Wind turbine-based modeling workflow
- Solar polygon workflow
- Accuracy and usability of the OSM power grid layer
- CSV/KML/GeoJSON export needs
- UI, mobile usage and performance issues
- Ideas for future forecasting improvements
Thank you,
