Case Studies

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Scorpion’s expertise plays a major role in Naikun’s plans for offshore wind farm

"Renowned for its innovative solutions, Scorpion’s team designed a power generating system in a steel enclosure to house the LIDAR unit and provide it with electricity."

As part of NaiKun Wind Energy Group’s plans to construct and operate the world’s largest renewable wind energy farm off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Scorpion Power Systems, an integrated power solutions company, has supported NaiKun in providing power for the company’s $2.5 million world-class marine meteorological station at the project site off the coast of Haida Gwaii at the tip of Queen Charlotte Islands.

Located off shore, the marine meteorological station is equipped with several high-tech instruments that will measure and collect data pertaining to atmospheric conditions, wave and current climate, wind speed and direction, and air and sea temperature. The measurement data will also play an important role in preengineering the project and identifying the optimum siting of the wind turbine locations.

Key to the data collection process is ZephIRTM from QinetiQ, which uses LIDAR (Light Intensity Doppler Radar) to measure wind speed, direction and shear up to 150m in height. However, with environmental restrictions a factor, negating the use of a Generator, NaiKun needed to find an alternative means of not only powering ZephIRTM but also a range of other equipment including met-ocean measuring equipment and satellite communicators.

The solution came from Scorpion Power Systems, which was recommended to NaiKun by QinetiQ. Renowned for its innovative solutions, Scorpion’s team designed a power generating system in a steel enclosure to house the LIDAR unit and provide it with electricity.

To kick off the project, Scorpion arranged for the manufacture of a steel enclosure measuring 2500mm x 1500mm x 2000mm, which was mounted onto a steel bed frame. The enclosure enabled the LIDAR unit to be housed at one end in a caged area, leaving the remainder of the enclosure to accommodate 2400 AH deep cycle batteries, four 600W wind turbines, an auxiliary mains charge and a mains controller with termination panel and internal powered lighting.

Now fully installed on a pod in the sea, the power generation system is an integral part of the first offshore measurement station of its kind on the west coast of North America. When completed NaiKun’s large-scale offshore wind farm will supply a cost effective, clean, domestic energy source to serve the growing electricity market in British Columbia providing them with 1,750 MW of electricity, enough to power 600,000 homes.