Certification body Bureau Veritas (BV) and UK government-industry technology development agency the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have inked a collaboration deal to create a “digital twin” of the 7MW Levenmouth demonstration turbine off Fife, Scotland, to hone operations and maintenance (O&M) practices on offshore wind farms.
The project will use Veristar AIM 3D software to mine collected data to cut O&M costs that currently account for an average 40% of the lifetime expenditures of an offshore wind asset.
