Overall, wind energy plays a key role in the green energy transition, resulting in more R&D projects and ultimately a growing market. Multiple needs and trends are emerging in line with this rapid growth, essentially revolving around the need for historical and instant monitoring data, connectivity and wind predictions:
- Location identification
- Bankability
- Efficiency increases and system planning
- Maintenance and communication
- Transmission and distribution
- Environmental impact monitoring and protection
Space technologies and data can play a significant role in facing those challenges, mostly through Earth observation (EO), navigation and satellite communication. In the onshore sector for example, machine learning applied to EO space data mapping is being used to support the identification of wind farm locations.
Fig.1 Spottitt’s platform enables to identify dangerous vegetation around renewables assets
Read our report to learn more about the wind energy market needs and trends, and how space-based solutions can support.
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