e-Poster: A Review of the State-of-the-Practice of Floating Lidar for Offshore Wind Development
(Room Station 2)
17 Oct 18
12:50 PM
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1:00 PM
Tracks:
Metocean, Posters
Floating Lidar (FLiDAR) is a relatively new wind speed and turbulence profiling measurement technique, allowing observations of wind speed with high accuracy, at higher altitudes, more cost-effectively than with traditional methods. Wind power project developers and FLidar system developers face complex technical, economic, and regulatory issues for design, selection and deployment of the systems. Technical issues include system reliability, stability, motion compensation, power management, communications, validation, accreditation, and deployment location and length for adequate wind field characterization. Economic concerns include system cost, system bankability, lease or own, deployment duration, number of systems, operations and maintenance, project bankability, and system compliance with Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator roadmap for commercial acceptance of floating Lidar. Regulatory concerns include acceptance of the Site Assessment Plan by BOEM and relevant state agencies.