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 of wind (or sodar) measures wind speed and direction at different levels up to 200 m and more.
“Remote sensing gives us a much broader and deeper data set than we could collect with tower-mounted sensors alone,” Barlovento founder Rafael Zubiaur says. “Its accuracy provides a detailed profile of wind flow so we can forecast a site’s productivity and how factors like shear and veer may affect wind turbine performance.”
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