Custom data sources
The reference data every model draws on, held in one place, scoped to a project or an organisation, and carrying its own provenance.
What Custom data sources does
A central data store that powers each model. It hosts numerous data types, including vessel rates, turbine specs, failure rates, and weather matrices. By replacing manual entry with a unified database, you ensure consistency across every calculation.
OPEX and CAPEX models link to custom data sources. For example, OPEX vessels are sourced from the same records. When rates are updated, the change propagates instantly, ensuring scenario data is synchronised.
Data is managed at the organisational or project level. Maintain consistent global benchmarks while ensuring project-specific negotiated rates remain isolated, preventing data leakage between bids, or team members.
Store full grids of wave and wind accessibility based on satellite and reanalysis records. These matrices allow the OPEX model to calculate precise waiting times rather than relying on broad, static assumptions.
Live · Site waves (CMEMS WAVERYS)
14,280
Values in one weather source, from 20 years of record
Accessibility by month and window — July is workable, January is not
What you get with Custom data sources
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Comprehensive data sources
We provide generic datasets for vessels, contracts, ports and nurseries, turbines, foundations, failure rates, logistics tasks, unit costs, learning curves, contingency factors, cable costs, mooring activities and anchor pile geometry — to get you started.
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Organisation or project scope
Publish a source to the whole organisation as a standing benchmark, or hold it to a single project when the rate is commercially specific. Velosco can also unlock proprietary datasets if you share your OEM/supplier agreements.
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Library-backed selection fields
Thirty-three fields across the cost models take both their options and their default from this library, so no model input is hand-entered or mistyped during scenario modelling.
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Weather persistence matrices
Automated, location-based wave and wind data for calculating turbine access based on wind speed, window length and month — for accurate O&M projections.
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Provenance on every value
Each record stores the source, who created it, when, and whether it was machine-generated from a reanalysis grid point or entered by a person.
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Editors that show their shape
Power curves, Weibull failure-rate curves and cost tables are edited with the chart beside the numbers, so a mistyped value is visible as a kink in the curve before it reaches a model.
Custom data sources in use
Drawn in the product's own interface, and every figure is real: they come from our live Demonstration project — a 288.75 MW floating wind farm in the central North Sea — and its Default Scenario, so anything shown here can be reproduced in front of you. No client or commercial data appears on this page.
One library, and every model reads from it
The sources this scenario actually resolves. Scope says whether a record is an organisation-wide benchmark or specific to one project; provenance says where it came from. The right-hand column is what breaks if it changes.
Custom Data Sources
Customise for variations in contracts, vessel data, turbine models, failure rates, and more. Scope each custom source to this project (private) or your whole organisation, or fork platform sources from Velosco.
Source types
Sources resolved by the Default Scenario
| Type | Name | Scope | Provenance | Used by |
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| Turbines (WTG) | Generic Direct Drive 11.55MW | Organisation | Library record · 11.55 MW direct drive, 61-point power curve | CAPEX, AEP, OPEX, TDD |
| Foundations | Semi-sub 3C | Organisation | Library record · floating, 3 mooring lines | CAPEX, OPEX |
| Persistence | Site waves (CMEMS WAVERYS) | This project only | Machine generated CMEMS grid point 57.8 N, 1.6 E · 2006–2025 | OPEX |
| Persistence | Site wind (ERA5) | This project only | Machine generated ERA5 at 146 m hub height · 2001–2025 | OPEX |
| Contracts | SAA Agreement 1 | Organisation | Variable fee profile for the service and availability agreement | OPEX |
| Failure-rate refs | Deepstar mooring integrity study of permanent O&G units | Organisation | Published reference · 0.0024 failures per line per year | OPEX |
| O&M ports and nurseries | Port 1 — 35 km to site | Organisation | O&M port; tow-to-shore and in-situ marshalling at 70 km | OPEX |
33 selection fields across the cost models take their options and their default from this library, so the same vessel means the same day rate wherever it is chosen.
A weather record you can actually read
A persistence matrix is a grid of accessibility by wave height, window length and month — 14,280 values in this one. The detail view shows what the grid covers and one readable slice of it, rather than a megabyte of numbers nobody will check.
Site waves (CMEMS WAVERYS) — P50
| Window | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 h | 11 | 15 | 19 | 44 | 54 | 64 | 72 | 63 | 45 | 18 | 14 | 12 |
| 12 h | 8 | 11 | 15 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 66 | 59 | 41 | 13 | 11 | 9 |
| 24 h | 5 | 8 | 11 | 33 | 41 | 51 | 56 | 49 | 29 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| 48 h | 0 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 45 | 35 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
The wind source paired with it
Site wind (ERA5)| Monthly mean wind speed, m/s | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At 146 m, 2001–2025 | 12.8 | 12.1 | 11.0 | 9.3 | 8.9 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 12.2 |
The wind grid is built at hub height, not at 10 m, because 10 m wind overstates workable time by around twelve percentage points against the same site's own table. That decision is recorded on the source itself, not in somebody's head. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00022
Edit the numbers, watch the shape
Curve editors put the chart beside the table. A transposed digit is visible as a kink long before it reaches a yield model — which is the cheapest place to catch it. This is the 61-point curve the Demonstration project's turbine record actually holds.
Generic Direct Drive 11.55MW — power curve
| Wind speed, m/s | Power, kW | % of rated |
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| 7 | 2,845 | 25 |
| 8 | 4,285 | 37 |
| 9 | 6,075 | 53 |
| 10 | 8,050 | 70 |
| 11 | 9,760 | 85 |
| 12 | 10,910 | 94 |
| 13 | 11,400 | 99 |
The curve holds rated power from 16 m/s, then rolls off from 23 m/s to cut-out at 28 — the machine's high-wind ride-through, not a data error. Seeing that before it reaches a yield model is the whole point of putting the chart next to the table. Provenance is recorded on save: who entered it, when, and whether it was typed or derived.
See it on your own project
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