AXYS Joins NORCOWE Consortium
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AXYS Joins NORCOWE Consortium

AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS), Canada, has joined the Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) to further the shared goal of developing innovative and cost-efficient offshore wind solutions for deep waters and harsh offshore environments. Through joining this consortium, AXYS looks forward to collaborating with the other NORCOWE partners to conduct research and development focused on reducing costs and increasing efficiencies of offshore wind development.

Specific areas of common interest include R&D initiatives that will explore the use of floating Lidar to measure turbulence intensity, test power performance, trial & validate novel measurement systems, and develop environmental baselines. 

Validation Studies

AXYS has recently deployed its dual Lidar WindSentinel buoy next to the FINO1 standard mast to perform validation studies and learn more about wind/wave interactions, microwave temperature profilers, and O&M decision support applications over the next 4-6 months.

AXYS aims to developing new offshore wind energy solutions which address real-world Wind Energy operational problems. Partnering with NORCOWE and its partner companies allow to participate in important R&D initiatives in the sector, expects Terry Tarle, CEO & President of AXYS.

Versatile Offshore Measurements

Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa, director at NORCOWE welcomes AXYS as a new partner in the centre as met/ocean measurements have been a major topic within NORCOWE from the beginning in 2009. With AXYS joining NORCOWE, the organisation’s measurement capacity is strengthened. NORCOWE are pleased that a WindSentinel is included in the current OBLEX-F1 campaign. AXYS helps addressing the need for versatile offshore measurement platforms, to meet the challenges from the offshore wind industry for comprehensive measurements of wind and temperature profiles, waves and currents.

Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) is an interdisciplinary resource center for the exploitation of offshore wind energy as a natural and sustainable energy resource. The centre was founded in 2009 as one of now eleven centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) with funding from the Research Council of Norway, and is hosted by Christian Michelsen Research AS in Bergen.

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