Matthew Smith Head of Business Development measuring wind power to the highest standards

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1 Matthew Smith Head of Business Development measuring wind power to the highest standards

2 ZEPHIR - A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF FRED. OLSEN LTD. OTHER WIND ACTIVITIES Fred Olsen Renewables Wind farm developer, operator & owner Global Wind Services Offshore turbine maintenance Windcarrier Offshore construction & vessels Natural Power Renewables consultancy, construction & asset management SeaRoc Offshore consulting, project management & contracting Harland and Wolff Heavy marine engineering, offshore wind farm logistics base, Ship design/build/ repair, offshore wind design engineering services 2

3 BACKGROUND Light Detection And Ranging a bit like Radar with light (lasers) Uses Laser to measure wind characteristics (speed, direction, turbulence) An alternative to traditional methods using anemometers and lattice towers Many advantages: cost, portability, accuracy, data produced, flexibility. Applications: 1. Ground based wind resource assessment (finance grade measurement campaigns, met mast replacement) 2. Turbine mounted (see the wind before rotor impact) turbine optimisation 3. And many others (Oil and Gas, Aviation, Meteorological) LASER transmitted light local oscillator (reference beam) DETECTOR scattered and received light (with Doppler frequency shift) TARGET 3

4 ZEPHIR COMPANY DEVELOPMENT Team of approx. 8 full time 15+ part time Malvern-based Business case developed Agreement on exit strategy through license to 3 rd party License sold to early adopter Natural Power (wholly owned subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Ltd.) alignment of technology to key consultancy to drive market acceptance Team of 2 move in to newly established Zephir Ltd. ( 2007) Remaining team of 6 seconded in to business Secondees become full time employees Zephir Ltd. becomes company brand (2009/10) Launch of new ZephIR 300 Move to sister company of Natural Power 4

5 PRESENT DAY Job creation with 45 full time employees Sustainable growth (20%) every year within ten year operating period maintaining breakeven or better with profits re-invested in to business to further growth (all but one year 2012, wind market crisis in US) Associated job creation (100+) through the supply chain and research communities Global distribution network established with additional in-field support organisations creating a further 30+ job roles 80% of all goods exported out of UK Operations across more than 50 countries Zephir Ltd., a UK company, has created a blue ocean for Lidar in the global ground-based wind resource assessment market, valued today at 20m+. 5

6 ZEPHIR LIDAR PRODUCTS FOR ONSHORE WIND ENERGY & METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS FOR OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY & METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS PRIMARILY FOR TURBINE-MOUNTED WIND ENERGY APPLICATIONS WITH DUAL MODE FUNCTIONALITY 6

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10 NEXT STEPS AND NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Innovate UK WinTIL (Wind Turbine Integrated Lidar) to support new product development (hardware improvements, algorithm improvement, design for manufacture) and capitalise on time sensitive market opportunity Ground based vertical profiling market driven by increased technical acceptance of Lidar as an alternative to a met mast for wind resource assessment, replacement of met masts on operational wind farms Wind Resource Assessment COP21, much development globally. One market depressed whilst another one is booming Turbine mounted lidar see the wind before rotor impact. Predict the future =! Turbine optimisation for increased energy production and reduced fatigue loads Significant retrofit market but also OEMs actively engaged in assessment of Lidar for turbine retrofit and integration ~325,000 turbines operating globally and ~28,000 new turbines installed each year 10

11 Thankyou measuring wind power to the highest standards