Dulas, a leading renewable energy consultancy, has announced that its wind monitoring division saw an uptick in work from new and existing clients in 2018, as the business supported over 30 wind companies in managing their meteorological mast and remote sensing services across their wind portfolios.

The bulk of the firm's work came from meteorological mast installation, refurbishment and decommissioning, as clients either replace or upgrade their monitoring, or site new masts for future wind project development. 

As a recent Dulas report Enhanced Data and Enhanced Returns: Getting the best from wind monitoring technology, highlighted, wind speeds are directly proportion to project returns, a crucial factor continuing to drive investors planning post-subsidy wind projects.

Alongside onsite work undertaken by Dulas, asset owners increasingly turned to data services in 2018, allowing them to streamline resource reporting as well as anticipate and pre-empt operations and maintenance (O&M) costs. Dulas performed data services for nearly 30% of its wind monitoring client-base.

Rachel Munday, Commercial Lead for Wind Monitoring at Dulas, said, "While recent UK Government  decisions on support for renewable energy - notably onshore wind - have significantly and negatively affected the pipeline for future development, it is encouraging that there are developers in the industry looking carefully at how to make future project economics stack-up.  Key to this, of course, is the quality of data provided in early stage resource assessment by meteorological masts and remote sensing from SODAR and LIDAR."

"Furthermore, the increase in volume of work we've seen at Dulas, is likely testament to existing asset owners investing in securing their future returns, optimising their projects using meteorological mast data."

2018 additionally saw the expansion of Dulas' services into Europe, with the business undertaking remote sensing work for UK based clients in Scandinavia.

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