Borrow the Buoys: DOE’s Lidar Buoy Loan Program

Title: Borrow the Buoys: DOE’s Lidar Buoy Loan Program

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After a 19-month deployment off the coast of Virginia, one of PNNL’s research buoys has returned to shore where researchers can analyze the data recorded by the buoy. The data revealed a few major takeaways that will inform future buoy deployments, including the times and conditions when data measurement is most accurate. Through the Department of Energy's Wind Energy Technologies Office's Lidar Buoy Loan Program, managed by PNNL, interested parties can borrow the buoys for year and contribute invaluable data to the wind energy community.

Publication Date:: 2017-02-27

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind Energy Technologies Office (EE-4WE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1369552

Resource Type:: Multimedia

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 17 WIND ENERGY; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; PNNL; OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY; LIDAR BUOYS; HUB-HEIGHT WINDS; WAVE HEIGHT

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