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EACH AND EVERY
MEMBER OF THE TEAM HAS AND CONTINUES TO WORK RELENTLESSLY TO SHOW CONSISTENCY BETWEEN LIDARS
characteristics that are warranted (i.e. not too much shear or turbulence). Although operating outside the IEC Guidelines, the equivalence of these measurements has been independently verified so that they may serve a very real purpose between turbine manufacturers and wind farm developers, owners and operators and are already accepted in commercial agreements between parties.
A NEW ERA
wind industry increasingly using lidar- only measurements. There are £billions invested on offshore windfarms that have never seen a mast, where either a floating lidar or a lidar mounted on a platform are the sole source of anemometry.
ONSHORE SITES
There are onshore sites all over the world that will never have a mast on them but a lidar is deployed either during development, construction or during the site’s operation. To achieve the level of acceptance that ZephIR wind lidars have, each and every member of the team has and continues to work relentlessly to show consistency between lidars, between sites and over time. Much of this information has been
shared, published in articles such as these in Wind Energy Network and has then fed back into the development of the IEC Guidance.
REAL AND UNIQUE BENEFITS
One interesting thing about this new guidance possibly hasn’t been fully realised yet. If a turbine-mounted, horizontally-profiling ZephIR DM lidar customer conducts measurements at the correct range as specified in the standard, the lidar software outputs a REWS compliant set of measurements! The real and unique benefit is that these measurements are also taken from the full 360 degree rotor swept area of the wind turbine’s operation, allowing for an increased chance of detecting wind
ZephIR believe that the industry is now entering an era where every potential and operational windfarm, onshore and offshore, can have cost-effective, multiple wind measurements with data covering the full swept area of any turbine and at many points across the wind farm – all made possible with lidar. An era where relationships between all parties involved in the site – the turbine manufacturer, the finance or debt provider, the consultants and the wind farm owner – are informed relationships. There is more data. Better data. More understanding and crucially more learning on all sides offer the potential to deliver the lowest cost of energy securing the future not only of the individual wind farm but the industry as a whole. So, should the 3rd of March 2017 be a day to remember? If ZephIR Lidar had anything to do with it, it certainly would be!
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