Swedish measurement project begins free wind atlas initiative
The aim of the campaign will be to minimize the uncertainties of the wind field prediction in relation to complex terrains. The campaign will be run by Uppsala University and Weathertech Scandinavia as the Swedish contribution to the NEWA project, in which similar large scale experiments are run at a number of sites in Europe. The wind resource will then be determined and a wind atlas produced and become freely available.
The University will use ZephIR Lidar’s ZephIR 300 to measure turbulence and mean wind speeds. ZephIR 300 delivers measurements at heights up to 200 metres, confirming hub-height resource as well as wind shear, veer and turbulence across the rotor.
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Lidar measurements typically deliver a £320,000 increase on the value of a project through more accurate Annual Energy Prediction (AEP) when compared to a 80m met mast on a 20 MW onshore wind farm – The Ecofys position on LiDAR use
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