US radar outfit Laufer Wind has secured approval from the Federal Aviation Authority for commercial deployment of its aircraft detection system.
The company said it was the first time the federal agency has backed such a scheme for commercial operations.
Laufer said the “radar-activated lighting technology” was installed on the tested on an unnamed 80MW project in Wyoming last year.
It said the system mitigates the impact of flickering lights on turbines in the hours of darkness “by deploying a radar-based system around a farm, turning lights on only when low-flying aircraft are detected nearby”.
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