Instrumentation report for the BeNeWakes scanning lidar measurement campaign
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The Netherlands has set clear ambitions to accelerate the energy transition. By 2050 all energy used in the country shall come from sustainable sources and offshore wind energy plays a vital role in the transition to a carbon-free energy supply. The government has defined a roadmap for the Dutch offshore wind portfolio aiming to expand to 21 GW by 2032. To support these goals, TNO has been performing offshore wind measurement campaigns at various strategic locations in the North Sea since 2011. Currently TNO is performing platform based lidar measurements in the scope of the Wind op Zee project on Lichteiland Goeree (LEG), Europlatform (EPL), K13-A, L2-FA-1 and F2-A-Hanze. In the scope of the BeNeWakes project, RVO aims at the measurement and analysis of the wake propagation downstream of the Belgian-Dutch wind farm cluster – including Borssele – with a range of different measurement instruments (platform-based lidars, floating lidars, a sin gle scanning lidar). The already freely accessible data from the LEG and EPL measurement locations will be a part of the dataset for the project. In addition, three floating lidars have been deployed roughly on the connecting line between Borssele and LEG by Aqua Vision. In addition to the platform-based and floating lidars, TNO was contracted to commission and execute a scanning lidar measurement campaign for near wake wind field measurements. It has been decided to use a Galion G6000 lidar from Mecal for this measurement. It was installed on the transition piece of wind turbine BF5 in the Borssele 1&2 wind farm partition operated by Ørsted on 19 December 2025. This report describes the instrumentation of this measurement campaign
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TNO Identifier
1027412
Publisher
TNO
Collation
20 p.
Place of publication
Petten