Condition Monitoring

A project to develop and demonstrate a groundbreaking monitoring system, which could reduce the cost of generating electricity from offshore wind farms, has been launched by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The five million pound condition-monitoring project is being led by UK-based wind turbine blade monitoring specialists, Insensys (recently acquired by Moog) in partnership with EDF Energy, E.ON, Romax, SeeByte and Strathclyde University.

The consortium will develop and demonstrate advanced systems to monitor the condition and performance of turbines and predict future maintenance requirements for key components so they can be corrected before expensive damage occurs.