ORBIT
Offshore Renewable Balance-of-system Installation Tool computes capital costs and activity times for offshore wind plant balance-of-system (everything besides the turbine) costs.
https://github.com/nlrwindsystems/orbit
Category: Renewable Energy
Sub Category: Wind Energy
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Offshore Renewable Balance-of-system Installation Tool (ORBIT)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nlrwindsystems/orbit
- Owner: NLRWindSystems
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2019-12-09T19:05:10.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: dev
- Last Pushed: 2026-04-13T21:32:19.000Z (7 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-04-14T08:02:41.063Z (7 days ago)
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://nlrwindsystems.github.io/ORBIT/
- Size: 19.8 MB
- Stars: 23
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 20
- Open Issues: 18
- Releases: 11
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
README.md
ORBIT
Offshore Renewables Balance of system and Installation Tool
Authors
Curent Maintainers
- Rob Hammond
Documentation
Please visit the documentation site at https://nlrwindsystems.github.io/ORBIT/
Installation
pip install orbit-nrel
Environment Setup
It is highly recommended to use separate Python environments for all projects, as such we recommend
using Anaconda or Miniconda for a lightweight version of Anaconda. Please visit their
documentation for installation details. This guide will assume the use of Miniconda throughout.
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Download the latest version of Miniconda.
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Create a new environment. Below, we're using the name
orbitfor the environment, but
any name is allowed, just replace "orbit" with whichever name was used throughout the
installation instructions. Similarly, any compatible Python version is allowed even though we
specify 3.13 below.conda create -n orbit python=3.13 -
Activate the environment.
conda activate orbitTo deactivate an environment, simply use
conda deactivate. -
Install ORBIT. See the pip installation directions above, or either of the source
or development sections below for further details.
Running Examples
For users wishing to run the examples provided as Jupyter Notebooks, please either install
the Jupyter Lab (preferred) or Jupyter Notebook library.
pip install jupyterlab
Source Installation
For users looking to modify ORBIT or build their own models to incorporte, installing
from the source code is required.
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Open a terminal/Anaconda Prompt session and navigate to your desired folder location
cd /path/to/desired/folder -
Clone the repository (or your fork). If cloning your own fork, replace "NLRWindSystems"
with your GitHub username.git clone https://github.com/NLRWindSystems/ORBIT.git -
Enter the repository.
cd ORBIT -
Install ORBIT.
pip install .For an editable installation that updates the installed version of ORBIT with any local changes,
use the-eflag.pip install -e .
Development Setup
For more advanced users, such as those interested in building the documentation localling, running
tests, or even contributing code back to the library, please use the following instructions.
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Open a terminal/Anaconda Prompt session and navigate to your desired folder location
cd /path/to/desired/folder -
If you are going to contribute code back to the library, fork the repository as you will not
be able to push your code changes to the library otherwise. -
Clone the repository (or your fork). If cloning your own fork, replace "NLRWindSystems"
with your GitHub username.git clone https://github.com/NLRWindSystems/ORBIT.git -
Enter the repository.
cd ORBIT -
Install an editable version of ORBIT.
pip install -3 .For developers install the developer dependences in addition:
pip install -e .[dev,docs]dev: automated code linting and formatting tools, plus the testing suite.docs: documentation building tools
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If contributing code back to the library, install the pre-commit hook to enable automated
formatting and linting. If this step is skipped, your PR will fail in the CI pipeline, and code
will not be reviewed until at least this step passes.pre-commit install
Owner metadata
- Name: NLRWindSystems
- Login: NLRWindSystems
- Email: systems.engineering@nrel.gov
- Kind: organization
- Description: The home of wind energy systems models developed, released, and maintained by the National Laboratory of the Rockies, formerly named NREL
- Website: https://www.nrel.gov/wind/systems-engineering.html
- Location: United States of America
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- Company:
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5444272?v=4
- Repositories: 40
- Last ynced at: 2026-01-15T00:49:55.882Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/NLRWindSystems
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- Pull request event: 3
- Watch event: 1
- Push event: 3
Last Year
- Pull request event: 3
- Watch event: 1
- Push event: 3
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Last synced: 3 days ago
Total Commits: 752
Total Committers: 17
Avg Commits per committer: 44.235
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.621
Commits in past year: 18
Committers in past year: 4
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 4.5
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