Dec 2 2010
Second Wind, a wind energy measurement systems providing company, has declared the introduction of a new program to increase the development of community scale wind energy projects.
The program utilizes cutting-edge wind measurement know-how, to offer complete wind source assessment report to individual investors or groups who are looking forward to install wind turbines, at locations such as industrial facilities, wind farms, schools, landfills community lands and wastewater treatment plants.
Second wind is planning to conduct wind energy assessment by utilizing Triton Sonic Wind Profile at the proposed locations of its client companies. The company has designs to exploit the data generated by Triton along with other information resources to produce a complete wind information report. The compiled report presented to the wind farm developers will include the details of wind resources information, estimates on wind energy, and required wind turbines capacity details. The process deployed by the company makes a low level impact on the ecology and requires few numbers of government permissions to complete the tests. The Triton unit utilized by the company can be shifted to multiple locations to speed-up the process of wind assessment cost- effectively than the present practice of using meteorological towers.
The Triton sonic Wind Profiler utilized by Second Wind incorporates a sophisticated remote sensing system that employs sodar technology to determine the force of wind at the height of the wind turbines instead of the tower-based standard assessment. The instrument allows measuring of wind acceleration at the height of the turbine rotor hub or above up to 200 meters level, thus reducing vagueness in the annual energy production (AEP) estimates. Deployment of Triton also makes the wind farm development process quick and easy.
Source: http://www.secondwind.com/