Adding a new turbine

[moptis]

Hi FLORIS team,

When adding a new turbine to FLORIS, it appears that the turbine must be included in the repo's 'floris/turbine_library' folder in order to work. Is there a way to remove this requirement or specify an alternate path outside the repo where valid turbines are stored? Ideally I'd have a separate library independent of the FLORIS repo.

Thanks!

[bayc]

Yes! You can use the !include functionality in your input file to specify a path to a turbine definition file. Within the farm section of the input file, where turbine_type is specified, you would use !include like:

farm:
  layout_x:
  - 0.0
  layout_y:
  - 0.0
  turbine_type:
  - !include /path/to/turbine/definition/custom_turbine.yaml

Note, you need to specify the full file name, including the .yaml. Also, relative paths work, relative to where your input file is stored.

[moptis]

Awesome, thanks Chris!