Epsiline has installed a YawAdvisor Lidar for Valemo, a wind farm O&M company, for the evaluation of the system operation and benefits at a commercially operated wind farm. The YawAdvisor is the first of Epsiline’s “next generation” turbine yaw diagnostic system for utility-scale wind turbines.
From its position on top of the nacelle, the YawAdvisor measures wind direction in front of the turbine, providing a yaw offset report to wind farm operators and maintenance companies and thus giving insight necessary to optimally understand and control a wind turbine’s yaw performance for the purposes of increasing energy output and reducing damaging stress loads.