Ørsted has begun using heavy-lift drones to transport cargo to giant wind turbines at the Borssele 1&2 Offshore Wind Farm. Currently, the team says the drone flight from the vessel to the turbine takes around four minutes per turbine, while the conventional approach without using drones could you back as long as six hours.
For those unfamiliar with offshore wind farms, they basically generate electricity from wind that blows over the ocean. The giant wind turbines capture the wind’s energy, which turns rotor blades that spin a main shaft. The rotational motion from a a gear unit is then transferred to a high-speed shaft, attached to a magnet that rotates inside a generator. The magnet rotates between coils of conductive wire to produce electricity.
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Ørsted has led offshore wind’s journey from a niche technology to a cost-competitive and large-scale source of renewable power. We’ve done this through some big leaps by for example pioneering new turbine models, but also by continuously moving a lot of new and innovative ideas from the drawing board to real life application,” said Rasmus Errboe, Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy-CEO at Ørsted.
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