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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
The Front Cover
QinetiQ, a UK research and development laboratory, has developed ZephIR - a laser anemometer which exploits decades of lidar research. QinetiQ began a programme to develop a commercial fibre-based lidar in 2001 in close collaboration with Risř, Denmark's National Research Centre; its ZephIR product is now becoming an established tool for wind profiling in the wind energy industry. In March 2007 Natural Power exclusively licensed the technology from QinetiQ to bring ZephIR to the global market and commence serial production.The article is published on page 7
Publisher's Note
Features
Wind Resource Measurement by Laser Anemometry
By Michael Harris, QinetiQ Fellow, QinetiQ Ltd, and Ian Locker, Director-ZephIR, Natural Power
Filling a Need for a New Tower Design
By Bryan Haltom, Market Development Manager, LORD Corporation, USA
Improvements in Wind Power Prediction
By Anna Hilden, Vejr2 A/S, Denmark
What's Your Transformer Got in the Tank?
By Florian Gerlach, Journalist, Germany
Financing Wind in Eastern Europe
By Rosa Tarragó, Commerzbank AG, Germany
Company in Focus
Insensys Limited
By Paul Rowlands, Marketing Manager, and Phil Rhead, Business Development Manager, Insensys, UK
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