FLiDAR Joins NORCOWE

NORCOWE, the Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy, has accepted FLiDAR, a leading provider of floating LIDAR based measurement solutions, as a new Consortium partner.

“We welcome FLiDAR as new member in the Consortium”, said Kristin Guldbandsen Frøysa, Managing Director of NORCOWE. “FLiDAR will add valuable competence based on their commercially proven technology for accurate Lidar measurements from robust buoy platforms. This complements existing key expertise in NORCOWE within areas such as measurement technology, meteorology, oceanography and numerical modeling. The cooperation with FLiDAR will strengthen our ability to provide innovative solutions to the wind energy industry, with the aim to simplify and reduce cost for offshore wind resource assessment and to lower uncertainties and risk involved with construction, operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms.”

FLiDAR N.V. is a joint venture established between 3E and OWA (DEME group), to build, service and commercialise a floating LiDAR based measurement device to enable a shift from the reliance on fixed offshore met masts in assessing the potential wind resource for offshore wind farms.

Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) is an interdisciplinary resource center for the exploitation of offshore wind energy as a natural and sustainable energy resource. The centre was founded in 2009 as one of now eleven centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) with funding from the Research Council of Norway, and is hosted by Christian Michelsen Research AS in Bergen.