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Now, leveraging the operational data and experience gained

SkySpecs, Orsted over the course of the trial period, Principle Power has mul- In less than 15 minutes, a fully automated aerial drone was tiple follow-on projects under development for offshore wind able to conduct a top to bottom blade inspection of the world’s energy projects off the coast of California, Portugal, France largest offshore wind turbine.

and elsewhere. The company is even working to design a ? oat- The innovative inspection was recently performed on the ing foundation capable of hosting a next generation 10+MW 80m turbine blades of an 8MW MHI Vestas V164 turbine at rated turbine being developed as part of a project involving Burbo Bank Extension, 7km off the coast of Liverpool Bay in

German turbine manufacturer Senvion. the Irish Sea, through a partnership between U.S. based Sky-

Specs and offshore wind farm developer and operator Ørsted.

Denmark based Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy) has roots

Principle Power in the oil and gas industry that go back to the early 1970s.

Today, the company is completely focused on clean renew- able energy and is the world’s largest offshore wind farm company, with projects in operation or under development in

Denmark, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and

Taiwan. Needless to say, the company has a large number of wind turbines in operation, all of which will require inspection throughout the life of the equipment.

David-Lee Jones, Ørsted’s senior technical project lead, said that when conducting wind turbine inspections it is often chal- lenging to collect consistent image quality across the largest offshore turbines. That’s where robotics and software technol- ogy solutions provider SkySpecs comes into play.

SkySpecs, Orsted

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