EOLOS floating buoy featuring ZephIR 300 wind lidar scoops innovation award
Budapest — EOLOS LiDAR, one of KIC InnoEnergy’s start-up projects, has won the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Innovators Award at the InnovEIT conference being held in Budapest in recognition of the product’s potential to have a significant societal and economic impact. Rajai Aghabi, Founder of EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions, says: “We are very pleased that EOLOS has been recognised by these awards for being the best in innovation to advancing sustainable growth and competitiveness in the field…
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World-first and new standard achieved in floating lidar as AXYS selects ZephIR 300
BC, Canada— 21 April 2015— AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) has achieved a world-first that is likely to become the new standard in floating lidar devices by deploying a dual ZephIR 300 arrangement on the leading WindSentinel buoy. The WindSentinel ‘floating laboratory’ delivers a customized full suite of meteorological and metocean data, in addition to the wind speed & direction data used for resource assessment, to better inform the development of offshore wind farms. Above: Terry Tarle, President & CEO of…
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Babcock’s FORECAST Floating ZephIR LiDAR reaches Stage 2 of Carbon Trust OWA roadmap
Ledbury, UK — Babcock’s FORECAST has reached Stage 2 of the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) road map for commercial acceptance of floating LiDAR, having consistently exceeded the required KPI’s for accuracy and availability as verified by the Carbon Trust and DNV-GL. Stage 2 permits that, following this successful pilot validation trial, the floating Babcock FORECAST ZephIR LIDAR technology may be utilised commercially. Babcock’s business development manager, Chris McConville said, “We are delighted to have our approach to floating…
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Fraunhofer IWES Wind Lidar Buoy Verified at FINO1
FINO1, German North Sea — Fraunhofer IWES has successfully finished the validation of their Wind Lidar Buoy which confirms the commercial acceptance of wind data from the on-board ZephIR lidar for use in floating offshore energy assessments, according to the criteria within the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator roadmap for the commercial acceptance of floating lidar technology. An offshore verification test was performed for and with the Fraunhofer IWES Wind Lidar Buoy now equipped with a ZephIR 300 Lidar next…
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