Onsemble SiteChecker: Measure Hub-Height Data in 30 Days or Less

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Onsemble, the wind industry's premier provider of hub-height wind data, is now offering wind project developers, lenders, and manufacturers assistance in reducing the uncertainty around hub-height wind speeds at wind projects under development by installing a Second Wind Triton wind profiler, the wind industry's market leading remote sensing system under short-term rental.

Second Wind's Triton wind profiler, an advanced sodar, measures wind speed and direction across the full rotor swept area of utility-scale wind turbines by sending a series of precision sound waves into the atmosphere and computing the doppler shift in the return signals. Amidst a wave of underperforming wind farms over recent months, lenders and investors are scrutinizing the validity of long-term energy estimates, making it essential to corroborate the hub-height extrapolations.

"We have seen several situations where 60 days of hub-height observations from a Triton reduced the uncertainty in long-term energy estimates," said Anish Parikh, Vice President and Co-Founder of Onsemble. "We have even seen cases where the Triton data helped boost a project's Net Capacity Factor by several percentage points, resulting in significant returns for both developer and lender." Onsemble's 30-day delivery window means that developers, lenders, and turbine manufacturers now have an option for quickly validating hub-height wind speeds.

About Onsemble

Backed by Torch Energy Advisors Inc., Onsemble combines scientific development with critical infrastructure to bring much-needed innovation to renewable energy development and forecasting. Onsemble operates the largest independent network of hub-height wind observations in the industry.  For more information please visit http://www.onsemble.ws.

SOURCE Onsemble