WindSense puts the wind resource, grid connection capacity by substation, environmental zoning, cadastre and an hourly-price financial model on one map. Built for small developers, consultancies and real estate agencies handling rural land in Spain.
Real estate agency with rural land? See the Agency plan: renewable potential map, AI land search and owner tracking, from €99/month.
Listed in the NDC Partnership Climate Toolbox. Developed in Girona, Spain, by Terra Eolica Soluciones S.L.
Wind, solar PV, hybrids and battery (BESS) configurations, from area pre-screening to the investor-ready report.
Today they overlay layers in QGIS and model in Excel: every new site means hours of downloading, reprojecting and cleaning data before anyone knows whether it is worth pursuing. WindSense does that screening in minutes and leaves the detailed work to the tools you already use: export the site and the layout as KML and carry on in QGIS or windPRO.
A developer does not call about a plot "with plenty of sun". They call about a plot with a substation that still has capacity a few kilometres away, no protected area on top of it and a good resource. WindSense gives you the map to find those plots, check them in one click and manage the relationship with each owner through to the agreement.
Know which rural plots a developer wants, find them before others do and run the negotiation with each owner. No GIS to install, no technician to hire.
Environmental zoning, PV sensitivity index, protected landscapes and aeronautical easements; prospective areas; power lines by voltage and substations with their available connection capacity, updated every month.
Load your own data: GeoJSON, KML/KMZ, GPX, Shapefile, GeoTIFF, CSV with coordinates or WKT, WMS/WMTS and WFS services, and XYZ tiles.
Set the criteria — constraints, wind or sun, terrain, free substation capacity, minimum area — and WindSense marks the areas that meet them on the map.
Load the cadastral data of each parcel — reference, land use, area and boundary — and check it in one click: resource, distance to grid, environmental sensitivity and landscape, each value next to its suitability threshold.
Per plot: owner, negotiation stage, contacts made, agreements and next steps. See at a glance where each owner stands.
A report for each plot, to show the owner or the buyer, and a status report on all your negotiations for your team.
Plots, owners and contact history are stored in a database on your computer, not on our servers, with backups to your own Google Drive. We do not contact your owners or your buyers without you. If you publish a plot in our land portfolio and the buyer or tenant comes through our network, we split your fee 50/50; the owner pays nothing extra.
Try it on your own portfolio: send us 10 cadastral references and we will tell you which are suitable for wind or solar and, if not, why. Free. Your references are not shared or used to contact owners.
For developers and consultancies: six stages, in the order a project is actually developed. Each one saves its result to the project and feeds the next.
Define the area by hand over the environmental sensitivity index, or run the AI-assisted search: set the technology, minimum area, maximum distance to grid and target capacity factor, and WindSense returns candidate zones with their estimated capacity in MW. One click on a result turns it into a project.
Set a minimum capacity and a search radius: WindSense lists the substations around the site with their available connection capacity in MW and the distance to the land. Pick one and the system traces the evacuation line route and estimates its CAPEX and OPEX from benchmark costs by voltage, line type and circuits, substation included.
Choose IEC class, rated power, rotor diameter and hub height. WindSense places the turbines according to the dominant wind direction and respects the setbacks you draw: power lines, housing, roads, water and forest. It calculates installed capacity, net annual production, capacity factor and the kilometres of access roads and cable trenches. For PV, module rows at their optimal tilt.
For wind, PV, hybrids and BESS: start from reference CAPEX and OPEX and edit them, add the grid connection cost, inflation, WACC and corporate tax. Hourly production is matched against hourly day-ahead market prices. The output includes the figure that matters most to landowners and developers alike: the maximum annual land rent the project can support.
Generate module by module: the financial summary with yearly indicators, hourly series and assumptions, in spreadsheet format; the PDF drawings — location, general layout, topography with 5 m contour lines from the national DEM, alternative sites and alternative grid routes —; and the outline of the environmental impact assessment with the inventory of impacts to analyse.
Manage the parcels of each project: owner, area, negotiation stage, deals, and the wind and solar suitability of each plot. Look up the cadastral reference, main use and area, load KML boundaries, and request the land registry extract (nota simple) without leaving the map.
One click on the map returns the exclusion criteria with their thresholds: wind at 150 m, distance to the power line, environmental sensitivity, existing turbines and landscape, together with the plot's cadastral card and its wind rose. It is the same evaluation you can try today on the free map, no sign-up. The built-in AI assistant also answers questions about project parameters right on the map.
Every project keeps its results card: area and wind, substation with capacity and distance, layout with annual production and capacity factor, and the full financial evaluation — CAPEX, OPEX, LCOE, IRR, NPV and maximum land rent. Exportable and importable to share with the team.
When the substation has no capacity left, the alternative is selling the energy to a nearby consumer: a direct line or a PPA. WindSense includes a layer of large industrial consumers built from the European EEA registry, classified by sector — food, chemicals, minerals, metals, paper, water and energy, livestock — with operator, municipality and last reported year. See at a glance who consumes power a few kilometres from your site.
WindSense is the screening layer. Its output goes straight into the workflow you already have.
Download the boundary and the turbine positions and open them in QGIS, Google Earth or windPRO for detailed analysis.
Hourly production and price series, yearly indicators and the assumptions behind the financial report, ready to check against your own model.
Colleagues who do not use QGIS see the same layers and the same projects, with nothing to install.
| Task | With QGIS and Excel | With WindSense |
|---|---|---|
| Gather layers: MITECO zoning, cadastre, lines and substations | Download, reproject and clean each source | Loaded and ready on the map |
| Connection capacity by substation | Check the maps of REE and of each distribution company | Table by distance and available MW |
| Layout and yield | Own calculation or separate tool | Automatic placement, net yield and capacity factor |
| Financials | Own template with an average price | LCOE, IRR, NPV and maximum land rent with hourly prices |
| Report for the client or the landowner | Assembled by hand | PDF and spreadsheet generated from the project |
Official public sources, integrated and projected: MITECO, Red Eléctrica and distribution companies, Cadastre, OMIE, EEA and OpenStreetMap.
Plus your own layers on the same map: vector (GeoJSON, KML/KMZ, GPX, Shapefile), raster (GeoTIFF and Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF), delimited text (CSV or TXT with X/Y or WKT), WMS/WMTS and WFS services, and XYZ tiles.
Start for free. Real estate agencies work with the Agency plan; developers and consultancies with WindSense Pro. All plans are month to month, with no minimum term.
Prices exclude VAT. Need something else: a single-site report prepared by our team, several users, annual billing with two months free or a success-fee partnership? Contact sales. Invoiced by Terra Eolica Soluciones S.L. Conditions in the terms of use.
We will email you a real, anonymised single-site report as a PDF: the one our team prepares for a client.
From official public sources: MITECO environmental zoning and sensitivity index, connection capacity published by Red Eléctrica and the distribution companies, which we update every month, the Spanish Cadastre and the national digital elevation model, OMIE hourly day-ahead prices, the European EEA industrial registry, OpenStreetMap infrastructure and a wind atlas at 150 m height. Each value is shown with its source so you can check it.
For all of them: wind, PV, hybrids and battery (BESS) configurations. Grid, zoning and cadastre screening is common to all; the express check, the layout and the financial model adjust to the plant type you select.
No. WindSense is a screening and pre-feasibility tool: it helps you decide which sites are worth spending money on measurements, studies and negotiation. Detailed design is still done in windPRO, WAsP or whatever your team uses, starting from the exported KML.
Yes. The site and the layout export as KML, which opens in QGIS and Google Earth. Hourly series, yearly indicators and the assumptions of the financial report are delivered in spreadsheet format. It also works the other way: your own layers (Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, GeoTIFF, CSV) and the WMS/WFS services you already use load onto the WindSense map.
No. The Agency and Pro plans are billed month by month and can be cancelled at any time. Annual billing, with two months free, is arranged with sales.
The Agency plan: the map with the layers developers look at, including substation capacity updated every month; your own layers; AI land search; cadastral data and the express check for each parcel; tracking of every owner; and reports per plot and per negotiation. You can start with a free check of 10 plots from your portfolio.
In a database on your computer, not on our servers. Backups go to your own Google Drive.
No. We do not contact your owners or your buyers without you. If you publish a plot in our land portfolio and the buyer or tenant comes through our network, we split your fee 50/50; the owner pays nothing extra.
Rural land listed for sale and for rent on property portals over the last six months, with price per hectare; alerts for new listings near substations with capacity; and comparable offers in each plot report. The module is in preparation: join the list and we will let you know when it goes live. Listing prices are asking prices, not closing prices.
