High-tech wind-measuring buoy being assembled at Quonset, bound for New Jersey
Deepwater Wind is assembling a state-of-the-art wind-measuring buoy at Quonset Point that will be the first of its kind in the United States.
The 105-foot-tall floating “spar buoy” will be set up in the Atlantic Ocean, where it will use a laser radar system to measure wind speed, direction and shear in preparation for the development of offshore wind power.
The $3-million SeaZephIR is being put together in the Quonset Business Park, where Deepwater plans to stage its projects, but it won’t stay in Rhode Island once it’s completed. It’s destined for New Jersey, where Deepwater is a partner in a proposed offshore wind farm. The Providence-based company, however, is in the process of buying a second one to collect data for its two offshore wind proposals in Rhode Island. Read more…
