A 60-m meteorological mast and customizable met-tower package can help with wind measurements. Manufacturer of wind measuring equipment Second Wind offers ProMast 60 for developers prospecting new wind farm sites.
Wind developer prefers sodar
Spain’s renewable energy economy is flourishing, with some regions generating as much as 82% of their power from renewable resources. Barlovento Recursos Naturales, a Spain-based international wind consultancy, has helped the country step forward in wind energy especially, using Second Wind’s remote sensing systems to assess sites in Spain and Romania. The company’s sonic sensing…
Partnership helps energy companies see the wind
Weather data management company Second Wind and Canadian software developer Mistaya Engineering, have partnered to combine wind data collection with analysis software. The companies say the partnership will help energy firms evaluate and select the most productive sites for their wind turbines. The Triton Wind Profiler and Nomad Data Logger from Second Wind collect information…
Its official: NREL says sodar data as good as from met towers
Sodar or sonic detection and ranging, is a relatively recent tool for measuring wind speed and direction up to 200-m up. The task was usually relegated to meteorological tower that had to be built and often reached only 80-m up. Portable sodar units simplify the task. Recently, as part of continuing scientific research to understand…
Wind consultants to use more sonar data
A company of wind energy consultants will expand its services with Second Wind Triton Sonic Wind Profiler from Second Wind Inc., Somerville, Mass. (secondwind.com) following a year of deploying the sodar units with its clients. The sonic wind profiler, a sodar unit (sound detection and ranging) detects wind speeds and directions at several intervals up…