The proposed tip extension is made of two shells of fiberglass reinforced epoxy glued together and filled with epoxy foam before being fitted to the blade. The product will be available later this year in the UK, Ireland and US.

Dr Christine Bordonaro has been appointed to the role of Principal Engineer on the due diligence team at Natural Power in North America

Renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, has secured what is believed to be the world’s first planning consent for a kite power technology test and development site.

Exhibiting at booth 4747 and from May 23 to 26 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Natural Power’s Vice President of North America Operations, Holly Hughes, will present a session in the Thought Leaders Theater ‘Empowering tools for effective asset management’.

Renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, has released the results of its latest validation study — an evaluation of North American pre-construction wind energy yield predictions by comparison to operational production — demonstrating 99.1% accuracy for project analysis. Since 1996 Natural Power has regularly conducted finance-grade independent energy yield assessments and operational energy yield analyses. This analysis provides…

Renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, has been developing new models for more accurately predicting wind-farm performance. According to the company, the investment in new high-performance computing has enabled the business to produce results from its most advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models at wind-farm scale within five to six days. This is a large improvement over…

The international renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, which has based its US operations out of its Saratoga Springs office, is now expanding to the west coast to meet demand for its services locally. Holly Hughes, who has recently joined the senior management team, will head up this new venture. With more than a decade of…

ZephIR 300 wind lidar, remote sensing for U.S. wind energy market, will be available in the U.S. through Campbell Scientific. The wind sensor is said to provide accurate wind data across all stages of a wind farm project. Manufactured by Zephir Ltd. of the UK, a subsidiary of renewable energy group Natural Power, the ZephIR…

  A renewable-energy consultancy, Natural Power, has been selected to provide Owner’s Engineering services during the resource assessment and project design stages of a 2.1 GW wind farm in southeastern Wyoming, being developed by Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy (Pathfinder). Natural Power will provide technical guidance in the areas of wind resource assessment and project design…

Renewable-energy consultancy, Natural Power, has demonstrating matched performance of its continuous wave wind lidar, ZephIR, to a calibrated wind tunnel. The lidar unit measures wind speed and characteristics from ground level to 200 m. It was deployed in LM Windpower’s wind tunnel in Denmark and successfully measured wind speeds from 5 to 75 m/s with…

A new managed-online wind data service, vuWind, draws on over fifteen years of wind engineering, analysis, and consultancy advice to provide clients with ‘on demand’ wind data through a secure web portal accessed through www.vuwind.com. An effective operational wind farm comes from understanding wind resource and quality across the site by collecting and analyzing as…

Renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has an online-managed managed wind data service, vuWind, which the company says draws upon over fifteen years of wind engineering, analysis and consultancy advice to offer ‘on demand’ wind data through a secure web portal (www.vuwind.com)

UK-based Natural Power has combined its product innovation business (ZephIR) with remote power specialists Ampair to offer a managed wind data and power service. Despite the low power requirements of a modern lidar system such as ZephIR, a reliable and easily transported power supply is still important for the remote and harsh locations in which the system is often deployed. The agreement provides an integrated and robust power product that takes likely ZephIR deployment scenarios into consideration.

It’s no surprise that changing wind flows significantly affect wind-turbine performance and lead to substantial uncertainties when assessing wind resources. That makes it important to understand the flow field over space and time. Techniques pioneered by a research group in a recently published paper can offer project engineers and developers with an understanding that allows…

International renewable-energy consultancy Natural Power says it has placed a no-cost-to-use, on the Web to estimate wind-flow complexity on potential wind farm sites. As potential development sites with, flat terrain become fewer, more projects are built in or near forests and on complex terrain. These complex-flow sites are often associated with harsh wind conditions likely…

Turkish wind energy consultancy, re-consult (part of the Natural Power group) announced the signing of a framework agreement with Austria’s industrial corporation, OMV, for the provision of technical services such as risk analyses and technical due diligences on wind farm projects in Turkey and neighboring countries.

Renewable energy consultant Natural Power announced the release of a lidar wind profiler that has been tested and developed with GL Garrad Hassan at a lidar test site in the UK. The ZephlR 300 has many features of past ZephIR ‘175’ systems and has been tested via IEC equivalent power performance measurements, extensive onshore / offshore…

A UK renewable energy development organization is creating an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. This will include up to 20 pre-consented “pods”, at which tenants may deploy their prototype or pre-commercial turbines and foundations. The developer, Narec, is a UK national center focused on development, demonstration, deployment, and grid integration of renewable energy…

An energy services company has mounted a laser-based wind sensor on a wind farm in the UK. The wind profiling lidar, Natural Power’s ZephlR, is part of a meteorological forecasting system undergoing a six-month trial. The lidar will feed live speed and direction data to meteorological organizations to increase the efficiency of power-forecasting tools, correlate…