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…
UK offshore demonstrator project uses lidar
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…
Laser wind season
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…