A potentially game-changing European scheme that aims to slash the cost of offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) through real-time diagnosis and prediction of turbine component failures is moving into its next phase following feedback from pilot studies at a trio of wind farms.
Launched last year, the €16m ($18.6m) Romeo project, which is being steered by developer Iberdrola in collaboration with companies including EDF, Siemens Gamesa, Ramboll, IBM and Uptime Engineering, is devising a cloud-based analytics platform based on data collected from Germany’s Wikinger and the UK’s Teeside and East Anglia 1 developments.
