Power supplies for wind lidar, sodar, and met masts

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Wind lidars, sodars, and met masts need a power supply. In remote locations, often the easiest solution is to house the lidar and power supply together in a trailer or container. What are the options?
Andy Clifton
CEO and cofounder
Photo by Andrew Clifton

To ensure high availability from your wind measurements, you need a reliable source of power.

There are a few common solutions to this:

  • Power trailers, with the lidar or sodar outside and connected by a power cable;
  • Trailers where the power system and lidar or sodar are housed in the trailer
  • Containerised versions of the above
  • Standalone solar panels, fuel-cells, generators, and battery packs, connected to the lidar or sodar.

The choice is almost endless, and there are suppliers globally.

To make it easier to find a power supply, we’ve started a list of the power supply trailers we know about.

The good news is that Moli, our wind monitoring software, can pull data from most of these power supplies. So, that means you can see what’s happening in one place.

Please get in touch with us at info@enerlace.de to add a system or suggest updates!

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