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New nacelle-mounted Lidar power curve measurement procedure developed and demonstrated after 3 years...

Avent Lidar Technology announced today the public release of the first independently developed power curve measurement procedure for the new nacelle-mounted LIDARs, following a three year project. The project has been conducted by a consortium made of DTU Wind Energy (formerly Risø Wind Energy Department), DONG Energy, Siemens Wind Power and Avent Lidar Technology, and funded by the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstra...

Wind - May 21, 2013

Philippines approves three new wind farms

The Philippines has approved three wind farm projects that will generate 208 megawatts, enough to power more than 40,000 middle-class homes, an energy official said on Monday. The wind projects will be the first to benefit from an incentive scheme which aims to ensure half the country's energy comes from renewable sources by 2030, compared with about 39 percent currently, the official said. The three projects are due to be operatio...

Wind - May 20, 2013

World-first simultaneous measurements upwind and downwind from a wind turbine delivered by ZephIR

Industry-leading wind lidar company ZephIR Lidar have confirmed, to the best of their knowledge, the world’s first simultaneous measurements taken upwind and downwind of a wind turbine for the Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy department, formerly known as Risø DTU. The measurements were taken using two ZephIR Dual Mode systems deployed at the front and aft of a test turbine at the client site as part of the Danish Nati...

Wind - May 17, 2013