Workshop: AEPs from Scanning Lidars - Outcome

Wednesday 03 Oct 18

The “RECAST workshop – Scanning lidars for AEPs” took place at DTU Risø campus on the 2nd of October. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and discuss the main barriers to using scanning lidars/Windscanners for wind resource and site assessment. 30 participants took part in the discussions with various perspectives: wind farm developers, wind turbine OEMs, independent advisors, lidar OEMs, and academics.

Presentations:

The slides of the presentations are available below:

Presentation of the RECAST project by Rozenn Wagner, DTU Wind Energy
Dublin Bay experiment and experience with scanning lidars by Peter Stuart, RES
Many years of experience and lessons learned using WindScanners by Nikola Vasiljevic, DTU Wind Energy
Results of the survey about the gaps for using Lidars for AEP by Andreas Bechmann, DTU Wind Energy
Technology Road map – the floating lidar example by Eloise Burnett, CarbonTrust
Demo of real time, long-range WindScanner measurements from Alaiz, Pedro Alvim De Azevedo Santos, DTU Wind Energy

Discussions:

The survey pointed out to three main barriers to using WindScanners for AEP estimates:

cost
complexity
acceptance/bankability

Those barriers as well as main benefits expected from using WindScanner for resource and site assessment and wanted changes were discussed in groups. A summary of the discussions outcomes is given in the Minutes.