A two-year resource measurement campaign for the site of the Moray West offshore wind project, off Scotland, has been completed.
The project, originally known as the Western Development Area of the Moray Firth part of the Round 3 Crown Estate concessions, contracted Spain-based Eolos as turn-key provider of wind and ocean measurements in summer 2018 to provide “highly accurate and bankable” wind data to supplement existing data.
Eolos supplied its floating Lidar systems for the campaign.
Back in 2018 the contract was the first project for Eolos in UK waters, which is now undertaking similar campaigns in both the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea.
Ocean Winds is the majority owner of the Moray West offshore wind project.
Ocean Winds energy assessment and metocean representative for the project, Guillermo Tornero de Diego, stated: “After two and half years of working with Eolos on the Moray West metocean measurement campaign we are delighted to reach the important milestone of decommissioning the measurement buoy.
“This marks the conclusion to a successful measurement campaign that allows the project to move forward to a bankable yield assessment.
“The two-year campaign has been completed without incident and excellent performance and data availability. The Moray West team is grateful for the proactive approach by the EOLOS team, particularly given the challenges presented by Covid.”