Nov 18 2010
Wind Prospect CWP (WPCWP), an independent renewable energy development company, declared that it has obtained designing permission for its proposed Boco Rock Wind farm. The wind farm to be located close to Nimmitabel, New South Wales, Australia, will incorporate 122 wind turbines with a maximum power generation capability of 270 MW.
This project considered to be the second largest in the state is the first project for the company in New South Wales.
WPCWP utilized three Triton Sonic Wind Profilers manufactured by Second Wind, a U.S.-based company in the formulation of Boco Rock Wind farm. The company has positioned three Triton wind profilers at different places all over the Boco Rock wind farm site to assess the wind speed at the hub height of the wind turbines and to authenticate the shear profile over the height of the available meteorological towers. The company equipped the meteorological towers with Nomad 2 data loggers manufactured by it. The Triton utilized by the company is actually an advanced type of remote sensing facility that incorporates SODAR (sound detection and ranging) know-how to measure the velocity of wind at higher levels. The instrument can measure wind velocity at tower heights up to a maximum of 200 meters. Use of the instruments removes the vagaries of calculating the annual energy production (AEP) estimates and this easy to use instrument regulates the wind farm formulation procedures.
Ed Mounsey, WPCWP’s Development Director, said that his company deploys Tritons extensively in its wind resource evaluation operations. The results generated through such evaluations lessen the vagueness of the wind project and enables assured annual wind generation forecasts.
Source: http://www.secondwind.com/