Onshore wind targets drive demand for wind Lidars
Power Engineering International
Posted on: 24 February 2023
Scottish engineering firm Green Cat Renewables has recently doubled its fleet of ZX 300 wind Lidars that remotely measure the wind.
Predicting an increase in demand for wind measurement campaigns Scottish engineering and environment consultancy Green Cat Renewables has recently doubled its fleet of ZX 300 wind Lidars that remotely measure the wind.
Merlin Garnett, principal noise consultant at Green Cat commented: “The expected growth in the domestic onshore wind market has presented the opportunity to expand our fleet of Lidars.
"ZX 300 Lidars can be installed quickly by a small team and can easily be moved to new locations to assess wind resource at wind farms in complex terrain that wasn’t previously possible, or to accompany noise monitoring campaigns where hub height and 10m wind speed measurements are useful. This gives a huge advantage in terms of de-risking investments in wind as Scotland, and the rest of the UK, race to meet net-zero targets by 2030.”
ZX 300 is a validated ground-based wind Lidar providing data for energy yield assessments and site prospecting and its accuracy has been demonstrated at the tallest met masts available globally.
The ZX 300 onshore wind Lidar measures wind speeds and characteristics from just 10 meters and up to 300 meters above ground level.
Digitising the wind key to decarbonisation goals
ZX Lidars provides the ZX 300, ZX 300M and ZX TM for wind energy and meteorological applications. With more than 30 million hours of operation in the field and over 10,000 deployments, the ZX300M accounts for 95% of all new offshore wind development measurements around the world.
According to the Wind Lidar Market Size report, the Lidar market is projected to reach $201.2 million by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 8.1%.
