Capstone Power Development will be relying on Pentalum Technologies’ SpiDAR wind Lidar to provide real-time wind speed measurements at four Ontario wind farms reaching commercial operation in 2016.
New Lidar unit and software promise accuracy to rival met masts
Wind measurements are crucial to establishing the daily operations of a wind farm. A few of the tools and sensors commercially available include anemometers, meteorological towers, wind LiDARs and Sodars often lack accuracy, are difficult to position, they’re costly or, insufficiently flexible to be simultaneously used in multiple positions in the wind farm. The SpiDAR…
Second Wind unwraps a Lidar
The Pentalum SpiDAR is a wind LIght Detection And Ranging (Lidar) system that the company says is changing wind measurement and improving wind farm profitability. The SpiDAR is a cost effective, patent-pending, pulsed wind Lidar system for remote wind sensing. The unit’s architecture allows using common, reliable components to maintain a low production cost –…