Eolos has achieved two, separate, full-year deployment campaigns that have fulfilled the floating lidar stage three requirements set out in the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator Roadmap.
The turnkey deployments at the EDPR-Engie joint venture’s Moray West offshore wind farm and the Polish utility PGE Baltica’s site in the Baltic Sea have both “exceeded the most-demanding key performance indicators” authored by the Carbon Trust.
A twenty-four-month continuous campaign using the validated Eolos FLS200 experienced the full brunt of Baltic Sea conditions, including a period of ice build-up, while the parallel 12-month campaign in the North Sea conditions has provided “high quality, bankable data” used by the project team.
Eolos achieved stage two status back in 2016 through extended validation periods, the characteristic of this criteria being one of achieving a high level of accuracy.
The stage three key performance indicators must demonstrate consistently high levels of availability.
“The remarkably high performance of the FLS200 buoys in the above and other commercial campaigns, as well as during short and long term data quality verifications show, that Eolos is on a very promising way to comply with all Carbon Trust Roadmap requisites to be industry accepted as a fully commercialised product” said Detlef Stein, from Multiversum, who serves as an independent auditor to Eolos.
Eolos will continue to provide its performance of its fleet of deployments to a nominated independent party that will audit and verify the consolidation of deployments to yield a fleet compliancy that is expected to be follow in the coming months.
In December 2019 Moray West elected to extend the campaign with Eolos for a second year running.
Eolos sales director Julian Harland said: “Eolos has been working hard for this quantifiable and evidence-based achievement, something that is wholly attributed to the in-house engineering team for yielding an inherently robust product with first-class suppliers”.
EDP Renewables Moray West project director Carlos Cerezo added: “Our models and assessments will rely heavily on the data obtained. We are now fully confident in Eolos being capable to deliver such high data quality in harsh conditions.”