First Wind Resource Assessment Buoy Validation Under Way

摘要

AXYS Technologies Inc. (Sidney, Canada) recently announced that the world's first offshore wind resource assessment buoy, the WindSentinel?, has been deployed off of Race Rocks Island in the coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada.The buoy has been deployed for validation testing prior to its commercial launch, the company said. The validation tests were designed to compare wind data collected by a laser imaging detection and ranging (LIDAR) system on the moving buoy to wind data collected from a second, stationary LIDAR on Race Rocks Island half a kilometer away, AXYS continued.