Vaisala, a producer of environmental and industrial measurement products, has unveiled its new wind lidar – claiming it brings increased accuracy and data availability.
According to the Finnish company, the WindCube 2.1 XP sets a new benchmark for wind measurement, particularly at the rotor sweep heights needed for utility-scale wind turbines.
Vaisala has asserted that the new device brings improved accuracy through the measurement range of up to 400m, a 69% average improvement in data availability at 200m in clear air conditions, and a 20% lower power consumption.
“WindCube 2.1 XP reflects years of customer feedback, rigorous testing and continuous innovation,” said Romain Guillaume, senior product manager at Vaisala. “Fine-tuning the detector’s sensitivity, reducing power consumption and refining measurement stability across environmental conditions helped us engineer WindCube 2.1 XP to deliver the performance developers need.”
Richard Fruehmann, senior engineer at DNV and a user of the new lidar, added, “The results from our trial show that the WindCube 2.1 XP has significantly improved data availability with equal wind speed measurement accuracy.”
In related news, Vaisala has launched its New Climate Business with the acquisition of its client Quanterra Systems, a company specializing in atmospheric monitoring of CO2 fluxes