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  • DOE Validates Avent Lidar Technology’s Wind Iris System

    8 September 2014
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    A collaborative research project at the U.S. Energy Department’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has shown that the Wind Iris nacelle-mounted LIDAR from Avent Lidar Technology is an effective diagnostic tool for identifying wind turbine yaw misalignment, allowing users to improve wind turbine performance.  This is the first independent scientific field study validating the […]

  • Offshore Wind Energy in Focus at German Maritime Conference

    11 April 2013

    Peter Ramsauer, German Minister of Transport says that federal German government is and remains a reliable partner in maritime alliance. “To keep Germany competitive as a maritime location, we will keep the tonnage tax in force. In doing so, we will ensure future-proof framework conditions for the maritime sector, which is a key growth engine […]

  • Blade Erosion Repair Can Up Annual Energy Production by 2%

    15 August 2016
    R&D

    An uplift in annual energy production (AEP) of between 1.5 and 2% is possible following the repair of moderate blade erosion, according to the first measurement campaign undertaken on an offshore wind farm under Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s blade leading edge programme (BLEEP). The measurement campaign, carried out on behalf of ORE Catapult by the Measurement Services Department […]

  • EOLOS Floating LiDAR Wraps Up Two-Year Campaign at Moray West

    4 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Moray Offshore Windfarm (West), majority owned by Ocean Winds, has completed a two-year resource measurement campaign for which it deployed an EOLOS Floating LiDAR at the Moray West site, located next to the Moray East and Beatrice offshore wind farms. The developer contracted EOLOS as a turn-key provider of wind and ocean measurements in summer […]

  • NORCOWE Installs First Equipment at FINO 1

    25 May 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Scientists from CMR have successfully completed the first installation phase for the measurement campaign at the FINO1 research platform. The campaign is carried out by CMR and UIB in close cooperation with the other NORCOWE partners, FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel, Fraunhofer IWES, RAVE and ForWind. Two Windcube 100s scanning wind lidars from LeoSphere and a RPG HATPRO […]

  • Ming Yang Accepts Going Private Offer

    3 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited has entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which a consortium of investors led by the company’s Chairman and CEO Chuanwei Zhang will buy all of the remaining shares in the turbine manufacturer. Zhang, who previously held a 33% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Ming Yang, made […]

  • DONG Energy Orders Second Floating LiDAR Device

    18 November 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Following five months of successful, high availability offshore operation of their first device, DONG Energy has just placed an order for the latest version of FLiDAR’s floating lidar wind measurement equipment. In recent weeks, the first FLiDAR device has measured wind speeds of over 25 m/s (10 minute average) for sustained periods and survived max. […]

  • The Netherlands: ECN Approves ZephIR 300 as Valid Stand-Alone System for Wind Resource Assessments

    20 November 2012

    The Energy research Centre for the Netherlands (ECN) has completed a 12 month offshore measurement campaign with the novel ZephIR 300 system as part of a 4 year campaign within the Dutch project “Meteorological Research Wind at Sea” where the ZephIR has been compared against the 108 metre Met Mast Ijmuiden (MMIJM) at the ECN […]

  • UK: Oldbaum Services to Provide LiDAR for Offshore Wind Accelerator Wakes Measurement Campaign

    1 November 2012
    Technology

    Oldbaum Services, a leading wind energy consultancy have been selected to provide the LiDAR (Light Detecting And Ranging) instrumentation solution for the Offshore Wind Accelerator Wakes Measurement Campaign. Hosted and managed by E.On Climate and Renewables on behalf of the Carbon Trust and Offshore Wind Accelerator Partners, this project represents a major effort to fully […]

  • Dong, FLiDAR Kick Off Floating Offshore Wind Measurement Campaign in Irish Sea

    7 June 2013

    The first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using floating LiDAR in European waters has kicked off in the Irish Sea. FLiDAR NV has deployed one of its innovative LiDAR buoys for DONG Energy in the southern East Irish Sea. DONG Energy, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, selected the FLiDAR equipment due to its high […]

  • Zeeland Seaports, Port of Ghent Merge Into North Sea Port

    11 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    Zeeland Seaports and Ghent Port Company signed a merger agreement on Friday, 8 December, after all eight shareholders of both ports agreed with the merger in recent weeks. The name of the cross-border merger port will be North Sea Port. 

  • Cape Wind Associates to Review Proposed NStar and Northeast Utilities Merger (USA)

    23 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Cape Wind Associates is among the 16 parties approved to take part in the review process for the proposed utility merger between NStar and… By Kyle Alspach (masshightech) [mappress] Source: masshightech, January 24, 2011

  • France: Alstom 6MW Offshore Wind Turbine Completes Power Performance Measurement

    6 May 2013

    Alstom’s new-generation Haliade™ 150 – 6MW offshore wind turbine has successfully obtained the IEC power performance measurement (power curve) after 3 months of performance measurements at Le Carnet site, in France. This key milestone in the type testing certification process follows on from the completion of the 6MW commissioning and exhaustive testing activity. The onshore […]

  • Fugro Showcases Its InclinoCam at EWEA Offshore 2013

    19 November 2013
    Technology

    Fugro has announced that its newly launched InclinoCam® is featured on Fugro’s stand (30A100) at EWEA Offshore 2013. “The need to measure verticality of wind turbines starts with the foundation,” explains Dieuwertje Smallenburg, Positioning & Remote Services Manager at Fugro Survey BV. “Most offshore wind turbines are founded on monopiles that typically measure 70 metres […]

  • TGS Starts Multi-Client Offshore Wind Measurement Campaign in New York Bight

    16 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Norway-based energy data and intelligence provider, TGS, has started a multi-client offshore wind measurement campaign by deploying EOLOS’s floating LiDAR buoy in the New York Bight area off the US East Coast. The multi-client approach offers offshore wind stakeholders the added benefits of reduced development costs and timelines, said TGS, as the company’s deployed floating […]

  • Vestas Red Turbine Blades to Be Tested for Bird Safety at Hollandse Kust West VI Wind Farm

    23 April 2025
    Business development, Environment, R&D, Research & Development

    A new trial will be launched at Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm in the Netherlands to test whether red blades improve vi5sibility for birds and reduce collision risks. Vestas is supplying one red-coated blade for each of the seven turbines involved, replacing the standard grey design. The objective of having a single […]

  • UK: Partrac Continues to Support Offshore Wind Sector

    17 May 2012
    Ports & Logistics

      Partrac continues to support the offshore wind sector through the delivery of oceanographic, environmental, geophysical and hydrographic coastal surveys. Some of Partrac’s greatest offshore wind survey achievements have been in long term metocean monitoring projects. The company has undertaken long term measurement campaigns at the Beatrice and MORL wind farm sites in the Moray […]

  • Partrac and Rockland Scientific Announce Strategic Partnership for European Tidal Energy Industry

    30 April 2013

    Partrac and Rockland Scientific have announced a Strategic Partnership to provide turbulence measurement solutions for the UK and European tidal energy industry. Rockland Scientific, based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, specializes in the design and manufacture of turbulence measurement instrumentation while Glasgow-based consultants, Partrac, focus on marine data collection and processing at complex tidal energy […]

  • Energy Research Institute to Harness Wind Energy in Singapore

    10 October 2011
    R&D

    Wind measurement stations have been installed atop Housing and Development Board (HDB) blocks since June, as part of a study to measure… by Esther Ng (todayonline) [mappress] Source: todayonline, October 10, 2011

  • ZephIR 300 Successfully Verified against Fully IEC Compliant Met Mast

    14 January 2014
    Technology

    ZephIR Lidar, the industry-leading wind lidar manufacturer, has announced that its flagship system, ZephIR 300, has been successfully verified against a fully IEC compliant met mast at the Lelystad Test Site. The verification, carried out by Ecofys WTTS in parallel with three other ZephIRs, deems that ZephIR 300 “is suitable for field measurements as a […]

  • NOAA Buys Two WINDCUBE Lidars

    29 April 2015
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    Renewable NRG Systems has sold two WINDCUBE 200S 3D Scanning Doppler Lidars to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The two machines will be utilized by NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Division for a variety of measurement purposes, starting with the XPIA experiment at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) taking place in April 2015. The XPIA Experiment […]

  • Ørsted Launches Its Own Uncrewed Surface Vessel for Metocean Campaigns, USV Also Validated as Floating LiDAR

    22 June 2023
    Business development, Innovation, Technology, Vessels

    Ørsted has designed and developed its own uncrewed surface vessel (USV) for offshore metocean measurement campaigns. The USV has also achieved DNV’s type validation as a floating LiDAR system and is set to enter serial production. The company, whose employees invented the concept which has now been patented, says its vessel is the first USV […]

  • OWI-Lab Becomes Additional Partner in WIFI JIP Project

    24 December 2013
    R&D, Technology

    OWI-Lab has been accepted as an additional partner in the European project WIFI JIP. The Joint Industry Project WIFI will investigate wave run-up on fixed foundations for offshore wind turbines by numerical modeling, model testing, offshore measurements and design and classification methods. The objective of the WiFi JIP (Wave impacts on Fixed turbines) is to […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Greenlights ZX TM LiDAR for Power Performance Testing

    19 October 2020
    Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has tested and approved the ZX TM nacelle-based wind LiDAR from ZX Lidars for Power Performance Testing on its wind turbines. The wind turbine supplier tested the technology together with ZX Lidars within a power curve campaign and, based on the achieved results both on the medium range and long range measurements, approved […]

  • TRIAXYS Trialed in Germany and Canada

    16 September 2016
    R&D, Technology

    AXYS Technologies has completed a series of sea trials for its TRIAXYS g3 wave sensor in the German Bight and off the West Coast of Canada. During the trials, both AXYS’ own TRIAXYS wave buoy and other industry standard buoys were used as references. The TRIAXYS g3 demonstrated extremely high levels of correlation against all reference […]

  • New Lightning Monitoring System to Reduce Cost of Energy

    15 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Danish company Global Lightning Protection Services A/S has developed the Lightning Key Data System that can measure the presence and extent of a lightning strike in wind turbines. The system is designed and tested especially for the harsh environmental conditions under which a wind turbine operates. The Lightning Key Data System can be mounted on […]