Steered LIDAR Resource Performance and Condition Monitoring For Optimising Offshore Wind Infrastructure
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This project seeks to take a new LIDAR system from construction of field demonstrator through to installation on wind farm and environmental test for marine ruggedisation. The programmable scanning LIDAR under development will bring a step change in LIDAR measurement capability and enable wind farm operators to really know the wind profile that is hitting their turbine, rather than being kept ignorant by unrepresentative hub height measurements. A number of innovative steps will be employed in order to improve accuracy and capability. This will enable the total farm output to be forecast from seconds to minutes ahead, thus enabling truly flexible grid resource planning. The system will also offer savings by reducing infrastructure failure rates. This will be achieved by augmenting condition monitoring systems with detailed mapping of the incident wind vector field. As an added bonus the system will highlight yaw misalignment. The system will assist wind turbine parameter tuning so that wind turbine may be set up like a race car for the relevant operating conditions.
| Sgurrenergy Limited | LEAD_ORG |
| Fraunhofer UK Research Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Wind Farm Analytics Ltd | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Thales UK Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Sgurrenergy Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
Subjects by relevance
- Wind energy
- Measurement
- Wind
- Wind power stations
- Wind farms
- Lidar
- Farms
- Turbines
- Infrastructures
- Construction
- Renewable energy sources
Extracted key phrases
- Lidar Resource Performance
- New lidar system
- Lidar measurement capability
- Offshore Wind Infrastructure
- Programmable scanning lidar
- Wind farm operator
- Incident wind vector field
- Wind turbine parameter
- Condition Monitoring
- Wind profile
- Total farm output
- Unrepresentative hub height measurement
- Step change
- Field demonstrator
- Innovative step