we're standing on top of one of the two doeowned buoys that we have recently purchased for the purpose of acquiring information inour offshore wind areas across the u.s. it is a large vessel. it's about 20 feet intotal length and it's quite large for a variety of reasons. it's meant to operate autonomouslyin the water for a significant period of time and it's actually carrying a lot of instrumentationwithin it.
Offshore Job Box, one of the key instruments that we have ontop of this buoy is this lidar device right here. the lidar is important for us becauseit provides high resolution information such as wind speed and wind direction at hundredsof feet. it can provide information at discrete elevations which allows us to have higherconfidence on what is the actual wind speeds
that we could see that the wind turbine itselfwill be actually experiencing. this is really important for us in order to maximize theenergy capture of the machine as well as understand the impacts of that resource in terms of reliability,operations and other key conditions for the particular design of that wind plant. in addition to that lidar, we have more traditionalatmosphere instruments. as you will see from the mast, we have a traditional cup, we havea vein as well as a temperature sensor. the mast also carries a series of key instrumentationsthat provides gps so we know where the buoy is actually positioned, as well as a communicationsantennae that allows us to really transfer the information being recorded at buoy toa near shore site where the data can then
be analyzed. in order to act autonomously, this buoy isequipped with two renewable options. first you will see it is equipped with two photovoltaicpanels. each one of them are 220 watts as well as a 1.1 kilowatt, 1.6 metered rotorwind turbine. between these two technologies as well as the on board generator, we havethe ability to operate in the ocean for several months without any human participation. on the deck we have a series hatches whichlead to four distinct compartments in the buoy. in compartment four we have a generator,compartment three we have the fuel tank for the generator, in compartment two and onewe actually house all the critical information
and the sensors that are actually capturingall the information in the buoy. why don't we take a look inside real quick? within thiscompartment there is a series of different instrumentations. specifically this blackbox in front you, the black box is an accelerometer. the reason the accelerometer is importantis because it allows you to really resolve the wave conditions that the actually buoyis experiencing. this is important because we actually understand everything from waveheights, extreme conditions, etc. again, these are the kinds of information we need to driveand understand what the offshore wind facility will look like in the future. what we are trying to do is really understandthe resource for offshore wind deployment
so we are really trying to capture the typeof information so we can do micro-siting of potential future wind plants. the better youknow the resource, i.e. how good the wind speeds are, how are the meta-ocean conditionssuch as the wave heights etc. the better you can design a future offshore wind plant andthe more energy you can capture from that particular site.
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