The system, a collaborative design with French start-up Cornis, scans as many as seven onshore or three offshore turbines at a time, feeding back an "almost immediate health statement" on 100% of the blade surface, with the option of comparing captured images over the long-term within a web portal.
“Based on our own experience of managing an extensive European fleet, traditional blade inspection services that include rope access, mobile elevated working platforms, ground scope and the use of drones and helicopters are expensive, inefficient and arguably pose an unnecessary health and safety risk when used as the sole means of initial inspection," says Greensolver UK general manager Stephen Bolton.
"With
