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WIND TURBINE CLUTTER


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THE REQUIREMENT? A clean sheet of paper


In 2008 C Speed took a clean sheet of paper and designed a radar system to mitigate wind turbine clutter for the benefit of airports and wind developers in the United Kingdom.


The company’s engineering team focused on meeting the stringent requirements of governmental aviation regulators, commercial airports and military aerodromes. In addition, while the team would incorporate state-of-the- art technology, it would still need to be affordable for its aviation customers to acquire, integrate, operate and maintain -- including many that were anticipated to originate from the wind development community where radar technology was unfamiliar territory.


LONG HAUL


After months of work, C Speed’s team agreed on a set of requirements that would result in an S-band, solid state, primary surveillance radar that would employ a traditional scanning antenna array. LightWave Radar was born.


In May 2013, nearly five years after setting out to design and build the world’s first wind turbine clutter mitigation radar system, C Speed delivered, under contract the first LightWave Radar production system to Manston, Kent’s International Airport.


In July 2013 Infratil Airports lifted its aviation objection of the developers project and in August 2013 the UK’s Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) granted consent for the building of the developers wind farm because of LightWave Radar’s ability to mitigate the clutter.


FAST FORWARD Today it remains the first and only mitigation radar system for air traffic control that does not require terrain screening that has been purchased, installed, and integrated in the United Kingdom. Regardless of any other radar provider’s claims of success or remarkable performance, no other radar or ‘solution’ provider in the world has successfully achieved this accomplishment.


In fact, the UK and EU landscape is filled with airports that have radar systems from the leading ATC surveillance radar companies in the world whose systems do not mitigate wind turbine clutter issues as they were advertised. And it was this situation, in part, that drove C Speed’s team to pursue this market and to capture it.


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