Scottish wind consultancy Oldbaum Services and French company Leosphere are teaming up to work on two French offshore wind sites with a capacity of 1GW.
The potential of the sites will be assessed using two 3D Windcube Lidar scanning systems which are long range scanning systems able to scan up to a distance of 10km and provide information on what wind resources are available at both locations and help reduce costs.
It is the first time these systems have been used for operational projects.
The Windcube 400S scans the wind out to sea to give an overall picture of wind resource available. The system has completed third party validation tests with DTU and DNV GL at the Janneby test site in Germany. The results show the system significantly reduces P90 AEP uncertainty.
Using Leosphere’s system, Oldbaum can design and implement a campaign to assess the difference between offshore and onshore wind potential at different sites and optimise layout design.
Oldbaum’s Technical Director Andy Oldroyd said: “Oldbaum Services is at the forefront of the wind sector in reducing the cost of energy by combining our industry-leading skills and experience in wind resource assessment, with innovative products such as Leosphere’s scanning LiDAR.”
Leosphere’s chief executive Alexandre Sauvage said: “This deployment for one of France’s major wind power project is a further proof of our system’s performance for offshore wind applications that our long-standing partner Oldbaum can use effectively to conduct very reliable wind data interpretation and consultancy work.”
Image: Windcube 400S (Leosphere)
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By EBS