NATURAL POWER RELEASES RESULTS FROM FIRST ZEPHIR 300 BATCH SHOWING HIGH LEVELS OF ACCURACY ACROSS THE BOARD
Leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, has released results showing the performance of the first batch of ZephIR 300 units manufactured and deployed earlier this year, following the launch of the product in November 2010. The sample of fifteen ZephIR 300s show all units exceeding industry recognised standards across measurement heights from just 20 metres (60 ft) up to 91m (270 ft), demonstrating the suitability of the system on wind resource assessment projects and associated applications. These systems have…
Natural Power deploys first dual-mode ZephIR wind lidar in India with the Centre for Wind Energy Technology
Leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, has deployed a dual-mode ZephIR 300 wind lidar with the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (CWET) in Chennai, India. The dual-mode ZephIR can be used in a traditional ground based application pointing vertically for wind resource assessment, or directed in front or behind a wind turbine to study incident wind fields and resulting turbine wakes. This new platform of wind lidar a dual-mode ZephIR 300 was designed and developed by Natural…
Natural Power’s ZephIR wind lidar demonstrates world-first matched performance in wind tunnel
Leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, has achieved a world first in demonstrating matched performance of its continuous wave wind lidar, ZephIR, to a calibrated wind tunnel as part of a Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF) project with Denmarks National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Risø DTU, global manufacturer of wind turbines blades, LM Wind Power and optical and laser solutions provider, NKT Photonics. ZephIR 300 a lidar system for measuring wind speed and characteristics from ground level…
ZephIR establishes global network of Trusted Service Providers – www.zephirlidar.com
Leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, has made access to quality, affordable lidar data easier than ever before by establishing a global network of ZephIR Trusted Service Providers which includes fellow industry leaders GL Garrad Hassan, AWS Truepower and DNV as well as local consultancy / engineering firms such as New Energy Scout (Switzerland), Oldbaum Services (UK) and Beijing New Energy Technology Co. (China). Leading technical and research groups such as Risø DTU (Denmark) and CRES (Greece) are also…
ZephIR 300 installed at Dogger Bank offshore wind farm with Forewind
Leading wind resource assessment lidar ZephIR 300, a Natural Power product, has been deployed offshore by Forewind to provide wind measurement data for the Dogger Bank wind farm. The system has been installed successfully on RWE Dea UKs gas platform 125km from shore and will provide wind speeds at heights from just 10m to 200m throughout the four-year deployment. The Forewind consortium (RWE npower renewables, SSE, Statoil and Statkraft) have selected Natural Powers ZephIR 300 to provide the first high-quality…
Natural Power business ZephIR aligns with remote power specialists Ampair
Natural Power’s Product Innovation business ZephIR, which provides the industry leading CW lidar system ZephIR 300, has today announced a strategic alignment with remote power specialists Ampair to provide customers with a managed wind data and power service. Despite the very low power requirements of a modern lidar system such as ZephIR, a reliable and easily transported power supply is still important for the remote and harsh locations in which the system is often deployed. The strategic alignment provides ZephIR…
ZephIR 300 Heralds New Era for Wind Lidar
Natural Power have announced the release of an evolution in lidar technology ZephIR 300 which draws upon the 6 years field experience and 450 deployments of the existing ZephIR system which has operated in over 25 countries worldwide. ZephIR 300 represents a validated, traceable and affordable continuous wave (CW) lidar system calibrated to an industry approved standard developed with GL Garrad Hassan, at the worlds first dedicated lidar test site. The proven core technology, which remains essentially unmodified…
ZephIR Lidar Deployed in Support of Narec Offshore Demonstrator Project
Narec, the national centre for the UK dedicated to advancing the development, demonstration, deployment and grid integration of renewable energy and low carbon generation technologies, is developing an offshore wind farm site in the North Sea comprising up to 20 pre-consented pods, at which tenants may deploy their prototype or pre-commercial turbines and foundations. As part of this project Narec has deployed a ZephIR lidar at an onshore site close to the eventual offshore location to provide a greater understanding…
ZephIR – RERL approved for measurements in the wind industry
ZephIR® laser anemometer – ‘RERL approved’ for wind resource assessment The Renewable Energy Research Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst (UMass) has successfully prepared and released an Assessment Report on Natural Power’s ZephIR® laser anemometer which is based on LiDAR technology. UMass has undertaken a data validation experiment which finds that the system achieves correlation of 0.98 up to the tested height of 118m in comparison to traditional cup anemometers. In addition, ZephIR® was shown to perform strongly in a…