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People have harnessed the wind for centuries, and for countless applications. Today, the wind energy industry has inherited this tradition. It is filled with innovators who use the wind like no one before imagined, and the world is better for it.

Recent evolutions in the wind industry — aided by Vaisala technologies, including WindCube® lidar — have given stakeholders better, bankable data with increased agility and simplicity. This has unleashed some of the most imaginative and useful innovations in the history of wind energy.

Vaisala’s wind energy solutions are unrivaled in their comprehensiveness and value. Vaisala is the only company on the planet providing end-to-end weather and environmental solutions with fully integrated, globally trusted sensing and digital services.

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WindCube: the most trusted wind lidar in the industry

WindCube and Vaisala: Elevating wind energy excellence

Today WindCube lidars are backed by the best science and metrology and validated by the most demanding testing and certifications in the industry. Just as important, our unparalleled global service and support ensures you can count on us onshore, offshore, and worldwide.

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Solutions

Offshore Wind Measurement

Make offshore wind farms not only technically feasible, but financially sound with single-source solutions for almost any need in offshore development and operations.

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Wind Resource Assessment

Wind resource assessment is a crucial, pressure-filled stage. Go beyond legacy technologies to capture the reliable, accurate data you need.

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Power Performance Testing

Simplify this traditionally difficult process with WindCube nacelle-mounted lidar and a revolutionary software analytics tool.

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Performance Optimization

Achieve continuous gains in power capture and system performance using the industry’s most versatile lidar suite.

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Wake & Forecasting

Lidar is creating new opportunities for proactively improving energy capture and system reliability.

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Feedforward Turbine Control

Embrace Lidar-Assisted Control (LAC) at scale, optimizing energy capture and setting your turbine portfolio apart.

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Wind Lidars

Why WindCube?

Discover the remarkable science and business outcomes of the industry's gold standard wind lidar.

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WindCube

The industry’s most trusted, bankable, and widely-deployed vertical profiling lidar, ideal for today’s increasing rotor sizes and hub heights.

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WindCube Scan

Provides full, 360° wind awareness for a wide variety of applications – providing unmatched versatility and value over time.

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WindCube Offshore

WindCube vertical profiling lidar, ruggedized and optimized for buoys and other harsh offshore deployments.

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WindCube Nacelle

Industry-leading nacelle lidar can be deployed temporarily for operational PPT and optimization, or integrated by manufacturers for feedforward turbine control.

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WindCube Insights

Software providing full fleet visibility and management for WindCube, and IEC-compliant PPT for WindCube Nacelle.

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Sensors and Systems

Vaisala Ultrasonic Wind Sensor WM80 for wind turbine control

Designed for demanding onshore and offshore conditions, the Vaisala Ultrasonic Wind Sensor WM80 delivers world-class wind measurements that optimize performance for any wind turbine.

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Visibility Sensor PWD20W

Intelligently adjust wind turbine light emissions, improving satisfaction for nearby communities while meeting stringent lighting regulations.

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Pressure, Humidity, and Temperature Transmitter PTU307

Accurately and reliably assess the meteorological conditions that lead to icing on rotor blades for better decision-making before damage occurs.

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Offshore Monitoring

From Wind Turbine Installation Vessels (WTIV) to ongoing maintenance and helideck needs, environmental monitoring and weather nowcasting are changing wind energy.

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Data and software solutions

Historical wind resource data

Fast, easy access to high-quality historical wind resource data for site selection, resource assessment, and climate impact studies.

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Site-specific wind energy forecasts

Find your competitive edge with the industry's most consistently accurate site-specific wind energy forecasts.

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Regional wind energy forecasts

Make data-driven decisions with centralized energy forecasts for 9 North American ISO regions—up to 23% improvement over public forecasts.

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Lightning detection and alerts

Xweather Protect provides real-time severe weather monitoring and automated lightning alerts for all your assets and locations worldwide.

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Lightning Data Solutions

From wind farm construction and turbine selection to operational continuity, Vaisala’s lightning solutions are optimized to improve weather awareness and project success.

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Product spotlights & brochures

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The offshore frontier

Discover the many use cases of lidar for all phases of an offshore project.

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eBook

The weather-augmented farm: Superpower your wind turbines & wind farms

Wind farm profit & loss is highly influenced by wind and weather, but you can quickly optimize your assets by knowing the present and upcoming conditions.

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Quick guide

WindCube Offshore: Floating Lidar System integration

Vaisala is proud to partner with industry-leading FLS integrators to provide the best technology, service and support.

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eBook

How lidar is becoming standard for Wind Resource Assessment

Here’s where the technology stands today, presented by industry experts from Deutsche WindGuard® and Vaisala.

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Brochure

Lightning and the wind energy life cycle

How Vaisala provides the best global data for safety and efficiency.

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Wind energy solutions

See how Vaisala is pushing the wind energy industry toward new frontiers with comprehensive solutions to advance renewable energy.

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Article

Lidar takes the lead: wind energy measurement in action

In the modern world of wind energy, the need for accurate and reliable wind measurement data has never been more pronounced.

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Additional resources

eBook

Incredibly accurate. Widely deployed. For every scenario.

Discover the lidar solutions helping advance offshore wind energy. Already proven, trusted and ready, they can go everywhere they are needed.

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eBook

Onshore, offshore, worldwide

How lidar is raising the bar for today's wind measurement campaigns.

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Science digest

2023 WindCube scientific digest

Take advantage of the latest research and deepen your understanding of WindCube lidar technology with presentations created by Vaisala scientists and other wind energy experts.

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Blog

WindCube Insights Fleet

This modern, cloud-based software helps to make your campaigns easier and more efficient.

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Security brief

Weather observation network safety

Learn how Vaisala is providing trustworthy and reliable weather data with industry-leading IoT security for a better connected world.

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Videos

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Vaisala Boulder Operations - virtual visit

Take a virtual tour of Vaisala's new, state-of-the-art North American headquarters building located in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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Success stories

WindCube Nacelle for Nacelle Transfer Function

RWE selected Vaisala WindCube® Nacelle to conduct
NTF campaigns, not only because of the mature
and accurate WindCube lidar technology, but also
for Vaisala’s ability to advise, support, and fix any
issues during initial measurement campaigns.

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Wind lidar stands alone for WRA

RES achieves their goal of conducting safer, faster, bankable Wind Resource Assessments using WindCube wind lidar

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Wind lidar stands alone for WRA

How Triconti is confidently conducting accurate WRA campaigns with WindCube® wind lidar.

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Accurate WRA across a South African plain

Mainstream Renewable Power goes beyond turbine hub height to reduce extrapolation uncertainty with WindCube.

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Proving bankability with accuracy and confidence

Find out how Pavana GmbH is advancing lidar for bankable WRA providing verifications against a 200-meter met mast.

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Comparing WindCube lidars to met masts for PPT

A side-by-side test of met masts and two lidar types is conducted.

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Wind Resource Assessment offshore from the shore in Japan

How Green Power Investment leveraged WindCube Scan Dual Lidar to efficiently measure the full wind profile for a competitive new project.

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Reaching higher wind measurements in complex terrain in Croatia

How Green Trust is going beyond the limits of met masts with standalone WindCube.

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Cutting-edge applications of lidar technology

WindCube lidar includes patented Flow Complexity Recognition (FCR) software for moderately complex terrain without the need for additional modeling software. 

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