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Guides for spatial work on renewable-energy projects

Short, practical explainers on coordinates, GIS and wind micrositing, written for developers, engineers and land teams rather than for cartographers.

• CoordinatesGISSoftware

  Best free lat/long to UTM converters in 2026, tested on one coordinate

  Eight free ways to convert latitude and longitude to UTM, from browser tools to QGIS, compared on formats, batch support, datum handling and the mistakes real users make.

  8 September 2026 · 12 min read

• WindMicrositingSoftware

  Best wind farm layout and micrositing software in 2026 (with real prices)

  windPRO, WAsP, Openwind, WindFarmer, WindSim, PyWake, FLORIS and reneGIS compared on what they actually do, what they cost today, and which one fits each stage of a project.

  8 September 2026 · 14 min read

• SolarGIS

  Solar project boundaries: convex hulls and point-in-polygon checks

  Solar sites are usually shared as a handful of corner points. Turning those into a boundary, and testing whether something lies inside it, is basic but easy to get wrong.

  8 September 2026 · 6 min read

• GISKML

  KML and Google Earth for wind and solar projects

  KML is still the fastest way to put a project in front of a landowner, a lender or a regulator. How KML files are structured, and how to build good ones.

  8 September 2026 · 6 min read

• GIS

  GIS for renewable-energy developers: the essentials

  A practical introduction to GIS for wind and solar teams: layers, projections, vector and raster data, and the handful of operations that cover most project work.

  8 September 2026 · 8 min read

• CoordinatesIndiaGIS

  WGS84 vs Indian datums: why your coordinates are 200 metres off

  Land records, old survey sheets and GPS receivers can all be right and still disagree. The culprit is the datum. Here is how to spot and fix the mismatch.

  8 September 2026 · 6 min read

• CoordinatesIndia

  UTM zones in India: a state-by-state reference

  India spans six UTM zones. Find the zone and EPSG code for your project state, and learn what to do when a site straddles a zone boundary.

  8 September 2026 · 5 min read

• CoordinatesGIS

  Decimal degrees vs DMS vs UTM: which coordinate format to use

  The three coordinate formats every renewable-energy team meets, what each is good for, and how to move between them without transcription errors.

  8 September 2026 · 6 min read

• WindMicrositing

  The wind turbine wake effect, and why spacing rules exist

  Turbines slow and stir the air behind them. This guide explains the wake effect, the 5D and 7D rules of thumb, and how wind direction changes what counts as safe spacing.

  8 September 2026 · 6 min read

• WindMicrositing

  What is wind turbine micrositing? A plain-language guide

  Micrositing is the step where a wind farm's turbines get their exact coordinates. Here is what goes into it, why it takes weeks, and where projects go wrong.

  8 September 2026 · 7 min read