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Two EOLOS floating LiDARs have been deployed offshore Virginia, US, where Dominion Energy plans to build the country's largest offshore wind farm, the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.

Advertisement Maryland-based offshore wind developer US Wind, Inc. has announced the deployment of a meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) buoy to collect wind and marine life data off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, US. Buoy staging and assembly area at Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point. Ocean Tech Services, LLC (OTS) has been engaged to provide turn-key data services from the system, which include construction, testing, deployment, and operations of the buoy and associated sensor...

Special journal issue looks at the R&D that is moving the field forward DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The Marine Technology Society Journals special issue on offshore resources for renewable energy development features lidar buoys. Data collected by the buoys are used to validate wind models, improve the understanding of air-sea interactions, and reduce uncertainty and risk in characterizing offshore wind resources. (Image courtesy of Ocean Tech Services, LLC and PNNL) The ocean--wa...