Burbo Bank 'first offshore wind go-ahead with floating lidar'

The buoy-mounted lidar was the only device measuring the offshore wind resource on site from June 2013 to September 2014, with energy yield data later double-checked against an offshore met-mast.

"The speed, flexibility, and relatively low cost of floating lidar technology is changing the way offshore wind is measured," says FLiDAR general manager Reinhardt Stevens.

The FLiDAR unit is made up of an off-the-shelf Mobilis buoy equipped with buoy-adapted Leosphere Windcube v2 lidar, held in a passive mechanical-stabilisation system.