In a highly forested area of Sweden, the landscape is studded by wind turbines whose stately blades are slowly turning under the watchful eye of what appears to be an electronic sheep. This is the light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) device from Wood. It is helping the owners of this particular wind farm to better…

Wood has been appointed by GE Energy Financial Services and Green Investment Group Limited as the owner’s engineer on the 650-MW Markbygden ETT Onshore Wind Farm located in Swedish Lapland near the town of Piteå. The project, which comprises 179 3.63-MW GE wind turbine generators, is set to become Europe’s largest single-site onshore wind farm…