Inspecting Blades Without a Dedicated Vessel

The ADBISOV (Advanced Blade Inspections from a Service Operation Vessel (SOV)) project is running smoothly. As a reminder this is an ESA (European Space Agency) funded project we lead in partnership with ORE Catapult.  The project focuses on efficient offshore autonomous  blade inspections from…

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Meet Aigars at the Windenergietage in Linstow, 10 to 12 November

The Windenergietage brings the German-speaking wind community together every year, and this time our DACH lead, Aigars Eglitis, will be there. From 10 to 12 November the Spreewindtage runs in Linstow, with three days of forums, exhibitors and plenty of corridor conversations.  Aigars speaks fluent…

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Meet Kaspars at Offshore Wind Poland, 17 to 18 November

Poland targets up to 5.9 GW by 2030. And as Poland's offshore wind sector is moving from planning into real build-out, the decisions being made now will shape how those farms are inspected and maintained for years.   Kaspars Litavnieks will be at Offshore Wind Poland 2026 in Warsaw on 17 and…

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One Bad Batch, Seven Cracked Blades, and a Fleet-Wide Scramble

One Bad Batch, Seven Cracked Blades, and a Fleet-Wide Scramble

Not every blade failure is a surprise. Some are slow-moving and under-monitored, right up until material starts to come off. In March 2007, at a wind farm in  the USA, seven turbine blades cracked and large sections separated in mid-rotation. Every blade produced at the same plant since the…

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Planning Inspections for Autumn: Light, Weather and Shorter Days

Planning Inspections for Autumn: Light, Weather and Shorter Days

The season is turning. Days are shorter, light sits lower, and weather windows get less forgiving. All of it changes how an inspection day runs. None of it needs to cost you data quality, as long as it is planned for. Working with the light rather than against it, adjusting exposure as conditions…

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Meet Lucia at the AEE Operations and Maintenance Event in Spain

Meet Lucia at the AEE Operations and Maintenance Event in Spain

Lucia from our team will be in Valladolid for the operations and maintenance event run by AEE, the Spanish Wind Energy Association, on 14 October. This time she is not only attending, she is speaking. Her talk is titled 'La trampa del CAT 3: reinventando la priorizacion de las reparaciones de…

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Perceptual Robotics save-the-date graphic for Colloque National France Renouvelables, stand C4, on 7 to 8 October.

Perceptual Robotics Exhibiting in France

A first for us. 🇫🇷 Perceptual Robotics will be exhibiting in a stand in France for the first time. (Our Dhalion drones have been inspecting in the country for a while, and we have attended the CFR/CNE before but it is the first time we will have a stand) Lucía Roca Fernández-Vizarra and Dimitris…

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