Wind Turbine Clearance
Modern Wind Turbines routinely reach heights above ground of 200 feet or more, making them potential competitors with microwave beams for particular points in space.
When turbines are being planned in an area, Micronet identifies surrounding terrestrial microwave and land mobile facilities and runs a clearance analysis to establish whether or not a planned turbine will potentially block an existing licensed microwave path.
For the sake of an illustrative analysis, a cluster of wind turbines located Southeast of Abilene, TX have been selected. When specific locations are known, as in the selected group, Micronet will create a bounding box that includes them, as shown here.
It becomes apparent from this image that the wind turbines are located such that none of them are affecting any of the numerous microwave paths in this area.
If the locations of either planned or actual wind turbines were not known, the user would simply specify an area in the form of a bounding box, and Micronet will run the analysis on that basis.
In that event, Micronet will identify any microwave and/or land mobile facilities that may pose a conflict with the wind turbines planned for the area within the bounding box.
In this particular example, there were no land mobile facilities in the immediate area.