With apologies to Bob Dylan! Wind turbine tower design and manufacturing is one of the lesser-known success stories of the global wind industry. What looks like a simple tube is in fact a complex structure fabricated from steel plates of varying thickness, rolled into cans which in turn are welded together.

Adding to its pipeline of demonstration projects, UK-based SENSEWind plans to construct a 6 MW wind turbine in Scotland using its innovative SENSE installation system.

SENSEWind and Forsyths have agreed to terms on a manufacturing contract to produce an industry-first carriage system in support of the 2 MW demonstration project scheduled for installation in early 2025.

A wind installation company that employs robotics to “self-install” turbines plans to demonstrate its concept with a 2MW onshore machine and eventually use its technology for floating projects.

SENSEWind has selected SM Industries (formerly Valmont) to produce a first-of-its-kind, triple rail wind turbine tower for its flagship 2 MW onshore demonstration project – a single turbine plan partially funded by UK Government (BEIS) FOW grant scheme.

On the O&M side of things, based on evidence generated from a series of industry engagements, BVG Associates estimate* that a future 1 GW floating wind farm of 70 turbines would plan for at least seven major component exchanges per annum in early post-warranty years.

The offshore wind industry would be well served to sharpen its focus toward installation and O&M technology advances designed with floating wind in mind. Now is the time to put promising on-site solutions, like SENSE technology, through their paces - before the jump to industrial scale.

Great article by Heidi Vella in reNEWS - Renewable Energy News this week looking at a number of the technologies (including SENSEWind) being developed to address the challenge of self installing wind turbines for #floatingoffshorewind. It’s clear that ‘tow back’ is not a viable option for O&M.

Excellent read here from Mark Goalen in Splash247 - operational factors will have a massive impact through the floating wind lifecycle. On-site solutions will be a necessity.

SENSEWind is attending Floating Offshore Wind 2022. Contact Patrick Geraets or Sandra Eager to hear about our solution for rapid installation and servicing of large wind turbines without the need for expensive cranes or crane vessels!

Christopher Nash, a co-founder who has guided SENSEWind as Board Chair through the pre-commercial phase, remains on the Board as a non-Executive Director.

Chris Walker, CEO of Scotland-based Muirhall Energy, has made a significant capital investment in SENSEWind, a powerful statement on the game-changing future of the SENSE technology.

Pioneering installation and O&M technology receives £10 million grant for upcoming floating offshore wind demonstration project in Scotland.

We have successfully completed a demonstration of their SENSE Up-Tower system. The Self Erecting Nacelle and Service System radically transforms how next-generation turbines are installed and serviced making wind energy projects cheaper, quicker and safer. This video shows the system in action.

Wind energy technology innovator SENSEWind has successfully completed a demonstration of their SENSE Up-Tower system.

Great coverage of the demo in the latest reNEWS (article copyright reNEWS).

The SENSEWind team recently carried out the commissioning and final testing of the SENSEWind system. The video shows that this commissioning and final testing of the SENSEWind system is well under way.

GEODIS is evaluating floating offshore wind technologies suitable for SENSEWind adaptation and is making good progress in developing the SENSEWind Up-Tower system for floating offshore wind projects.

Interesting new report from The Carbon Trust (Phase II summary report from the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project).