ZephIR 300 has demonstrated its ability for providing quantitative wind speed measurements, to an industry-approved standard and is now accepted within a Technical Advisor / Bank’s Engineers formal energy assessment of a modern scale wind farm with specific site conditions forming part of the appropriate measurement methodology chosen.
Further, the reduction in energy yield ‘uncertainty’ achieved by using ZephIR 300 provides a significant increase in project Net Present Value and Return on Equity.
An industry expert report published by Windpower Monthly has collated best practice guidelines, experience and advice from organisations including DNV GL, Natural Power, tb engineers, Fraunhofer IWES and Ecofys, and applied the findings to the wind industry’s original wind lidar system – ZephIR – which has the longest operational track record of all commercially available lidar systems in these applications.
The modes of use of ZephIR are summarised below with the findings of the report shown for each mode:
Press release; Image: ZephIR Lidar