Renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, has been shortlisted in two award categories for the 10th British Renewable Energy Awards (BREA), hosted by the Renewable Energy Association. This double recognition follows a win in the project category during last year’s awards for their work on the development of the Salkhit project, Mongolia’s first wind farm. This year,…
Scanning lidar beats conventional wake models for showing wakes and wind speeds
IT CAN BE TOUGH for wind farm designers to estimate wakes and how they affect downstream turbines. A variety of conventional wake models have had modest success predicting wake effects. They are now giving way to more accurate methods that make rotor wakes and airflow remarkably visible. One tool creating a bit of a stir…
Clarification from a sharp-eyed reader on jetstreams and low-level jets
Editor’s note: I (Paul Dvorak) used the term low-level jetstream in a tweet to describe phenomena detected in a picture from a scanning lidar. I should have pointed out the low-level jet. My thanks to Christian Wetzel for catching the error. You used the term “low level jet stream” which sounds like a combination of “low…