Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) accommodates nearly 40 million travelers per year and is a major U.S. hub. With 15-year-old Vaisala technology at the end of its planned lifespan, MSP needed to upgrade and modernize — without adding complexity or disrupting operations.
Although their sounding stations were established and functional, the Meteorological Service was manually conducting soundings. The organization sought to modernize the weather network with an automated sounding solution that would optimize staff resources, freeing them to focus on other tasks.
As it was the first nacelle-mounted lidar campaign on this wind farm, Valeco decided to fully verify the performance of all four turbines, one at a time: power curve, yaw alignment, and nacelle transfer function.