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ESA’s expertise from its Aeolus satellite programme helped the French company Leosphere to improve their instrument to maximise the amount of electricity from new wind turbines. The instrument can measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 metres. Developed during the company’s start-up phase at ESA’s Business Incubation Centre (BIC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the instrument make use of the ‘lidar’ technology similar to that which ESA will use on its Aeolus satellite to provide global observations of wind profiles from space. More instruments based on the same technology have followed and these are now being used in more than 100 countries.