Remote wind sensors

Remote wind sensorsMany published articles and reports across the wind industry highlight underperforming wind turbines and stress on turbine components leading to reduced energy output, premature fatigue, and increased maintenance. The Vindicator laser wind sensor now offers a better way to control wind turbines. Catch The Wind’s team of aerospace engineers has designed and tested a game-changing wind turbine control system—in production and ready for installation. They have over two years of wind turbine control data from installations on six different turbines in six different locations, which confirms the benefit of controlling utility-scale wind turbines using forward-looking remote sensors. Turbines are designed to be occasionally misaligned between zero and eight degrees, but in reality the turbines are misaligned by more than double that design parameter, all the time.

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As seen in: CanWEA 2011 Show-in-Print
Volume: September/October 2011