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Meteorological Masts
With over ten years’ experience and a proven track record in wind energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy can provide a range of turnkey wind monitoring services for proposed wind farm sites. Our met mast services include: The selection of met mast location on site, The design and supply of met masts and measurement equipment, International met mast installation, Secure and regular data recovery and monthly reporting. Our mast package includes a selection of mast designs ranging from 10m to 90m in height, including our flagship SgurrMetMast which can be installed with all necessary monitoring instrumentation to suit the requirements of your wind farm project. SgurrEnergy’s in-house installation team will ensure that no matter your choice of wind monitoring mast, it will be installed to the highest of safety standards. In addition to wind measurement met masts, SgurrEnergy also offer lidar wind monitoring services.
SgurrMetMast
SgurrEnergy has utilised its significant expertise within the wind energy industry to design the ideal meteorological mast for wind measurement. SgurrMetMast is a temporary guyed tubular met mast in heights of 70m and 80m which, coupled with our measurement and analysis services, will ensure you have the highest quality wind data for your site.
SgurrMetMast can be deployed on varying complexity of terrain including:
- Arable land
- Forestry
- Deforested
- Hill side
- Mountain
SgurrMetMast features
- 70/80m tubular tilt up guyed masts
- 30 year design fatigue life
- Installed with required wind monitoring instrumentation to provide bank grade wind data
- Accommodation of dual or single located wind monitoring instrumentation
- Design independently verified by Ramboll
- Independently assessed in accordance with Eurocode 3
- Met mast fabricator ISO 9001 accredited and independently audited
Third-party supplied masts
As well as SgurrMetMast, we can also install temporary wind monitoring masts ranging in height from 10m to 90m. We can equip these temporary masts with a range of wind monitoring devices as required by your project specifications including cup and ultrasonic anemometers; temperature, pressure and relative humidity sensors; and wind vanes. In addition, we can supply bird flight diverters and aviation lighting to meet planning requirements.
Mast features
- 40-90m masts boast 4+ anemometers and 2+ wind direction vanes
- 10m mast includes 2 anemometers and 1 wind direction vane
- Supported by steel guy wires in four directions
- No cranes or concrete foundations
- All data recorded on a data logger on mast
- Data logger conducts remote data retrieval and diagnostic checks
Permanent met masts
SgurrEnergy can offer a turnkey permanent met mast package including mast location study, design, supply, installation and operation and maintenance services. A permanent met mast will be on site for the life time of the wind farm and as such requires a robust design with easy maintenance.
We can design the met mast and met panel system to your specific requirements. Based on our track record of experience, this will typically consist of a lattice tower met mast close to the wind turbine hub height with a built in access ladder, fall arrest and lightning protection. Masts can be installed with a number of anemometers, one of which would be located at hub height.
We typically offer the following additional instrumentation:
- Wind vanes
- Ultrasonic heated instrument
- Rain detectors
- Pressure, temperature and relative humidity sensors
The instrumentation is connected to a met panel consisting of a data logging system and fiber optics connection to allow communications with the wind farm SCADA system. SgurrEnergy’s pre designed met panel can be adapted for communication withall major wind farm SCADA systems and can be supplied and installed on pre-existing or third party supplied met masts.