Enterprize Energy has engaged Fugro and its Vietnamese partner, PTSE, to deploy Fugro’s ‘Seawatch Wind LiDAR Buoy’ to collect detailed wind resource, meteorological, and oceanographic data across the 2000 km2 of the 3.4GW Thang Long offshore wind farm project site over the next 12 months.
The technology - comprising the Seawatch Wavescan Buoy as a platform into which the ZX 300M LiDAR is integrated - will track air pressure, humidity, air and water temperature, wave height and current, with support from a guard vessel which will also track fishery activity and supplementary ocean data from its own onboard sensors. The first 600MW phase of the 3.4GW Thang Long offshore wind farm is due to come online by the end of 2025, with further phases developed on a rolling basis.