At an growing variety of Dutch wind farms with purple impediment lights, an Plane Detection Lighting System (ADLS) is being launched. Due to this technique, the purple impediment lights solely activate when plane visitors is detected. That is now additionally the case for the onshore wind farm Koningspleij in Arnhem.
A transponder system by Lanthan Secure Sky has been activated on the 4 wind generators of Koningspleij Wind Farm, after the Dutch Inspectorate for the Setting and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) permitted the detection system.
Wind generators with a tip top of greater than 150 metres, as at Koningspleij Wind Farm, should by legislation be fitted with impediment lighting. This lighting makes the wind generators seen to air visitors. Utilizing a detection system permits for the obstable lighting solely to modify on when an plane approaches the wind turbine at nightfall or at night time. It switches off once more when no plane is flying close to the wind turbine.
A optimistic collaboration between the ILT and all events concerned, and a take a look at flight led to approval of the transponder system. The transponder system was made doable partly with a grant from the Province of Gelderland. The province launched a subsidy scheme for ADLS in September 2023.
“We now have actively knowledgeable the operators of the Gelderland wind farms in regards to the subsidy for plane detection. The Plane Detection Lighting System contributes to help at wind farms, and we intention to minimise nuisance as a lot as doable.”
Ans Mol, vitality deputy of the province of Gelderland
Koningspleij Wind Farm
Windpark Koningspleij includes 4 wind generators on and close to Industriepark Kleefse Waard (IPKW) in Arnhem. The generators are of kind Enercon E-115 EP3 with a tip top of 177.5 m and a rotor diameter of 115.7 m. Collectively, they will generate 34.5 million kWh of vitality yearly. That is the equal of over 5 per cent of the full electrical energy consumption in Arnhem.
The wind farm is an initiative of the vitality cooperative Rijn and IJssel Energiecoöperatie, Prowind and vitality firm Pure Energie. Three of the 4 wind generators are owned by Rijn and IJssel Energiecoöperatie. There are 575 co-owners who take part within the wind farm by way of Rijn and IJssel Energiecoöperatie. The fourth belongs to Pure Energie.
