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New deal signed for offshore wind innovators

By: Chloe Emanuel 02/04/2024 ORE Catapult

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The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Vattenfall have signed a three-year extension on their testing and demonstration collaboration at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm.

The partnership at the 96.8 MW offshore wind test and demonstration facility first began in 2019. Since then, technologies which have the potential to address operation and maintenance challenges currently facing offshore wind farms have been tested at the site, such as blade repair, leading edge erosion, robotics, remote cable monitoring and remote and autonomous inspection. Now, more companies ready to test their technologies offshore will be supported by ORE Catapult and Vattenfall at the 11-turbine wind farm, 2.5km off the Aberdeen coast, until the end of 2026.

Geo-data specialist Fugro completed the world’s first fully remote ROV inspection of an offshore wind farm at the Aberdeen site last year. Their uncrewed surface vessel (USV), Blue Essence® and electric remotely operated vehicle (eROV), Blue Volta® delivered an in-depth inspection, with the crew safely onshore. Real-time data was streamed via high band width VSAT connection to Fugro’s remote operations centre (ROC) in Aberdeen, improving safety and reducing carbon emissions by 95%. Since then, Fugro have expanded their USV fleet in Europe, completing multiple pipeline inspections and further windfarm asset integrity surveys.

Safety at sea pioneers Zelim tested their Swift Rescue Conveyor System which demonstrated it was 20 times faster at recovering people overboard offshore than any conventional systems, and Pegasus Welfare Solutions (PWS) constructed the world’s first in-turbine toilets that have been installed into all the wind farm’s turbines. PWS was acquired by OEG Offshore in 2021.

Edinburgh based company, Cyberhawk conducted an automated drone blade inspection at the offshore wind farm. Future projects at the wind farm will be looking at technology innovation in the areas of robotics and sustainable solutions. Each year, Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm offsets an average 134,000 tonnes of CO2 and meets the power needs of 80,000 UK households.

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