Windar Photonics announces orders from Estonian turbine maker
Windar Photonics announced new orders on Wednesday for Windar's four-beam LiDAR device, the WindVISION, from an international wind turbine original equipment manufacturer.
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The AIM-traded firm said it has installed and tested one of its WindVISION units on an Eleon 3.4M-118 wind turbine, at the new-build 100MW Aidu wind farm in northeastern Estonia for the manufacturer, Eleon AS.
It said the Aidu wind farm is a project with a total budget of €216m, to be completed by 2018 with a total of 30 Eleon 3.4M-118 wind turbines.
Windar has worked with Eleon since 2013, and the WindVISION installation is the first direct integration between a LiDAR wind sensor and the control system of a wind turbine at the design stage.
“The direct integration of Windar's LIDAR technology into a new turbine, which is expected to be sold internationally for a number of years to come, represents a new era for our technology,” said Windar CEO Martin Rambusch.
“We believe that Eleon will be one of a number of international OEMs which will integrate Windar's technology into their turbines where internationally thousands of turbines are forecast to be sold annually through to 2020.
“Besides the WindVISION LiDAR primarily being promoted towards the OEM market segment, we continue with our engagement with the retrofit market with our WindEYE units and look forward to providing further updates in due course,” Rambusch added.
Oleg Sõnajalg, CEO of Eleon AS, said his company sees “great potential” in Windar Photonics' LiDARs for providing operational data.
“[The product] can be utilised for reducing damaging loads on the vital parts of the wind turbine.”