Navantia and Eolos Floating Lidar Solutions have signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance to provide services devoted to the inspection, diagnosis and monitoring of offshore wind farms using and operating unmanned marine vehicles combined with advanced meteorological data acquisition systems.
The two companies have signed an exclusivity agreement for the development and commercial roll-out of technology, products and services for the operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms.
Demonstration tests in the real environment are expected to start October off the Spanish coast where Navantia’s unmanned service vessel (USV) Vendaval has been operating since 2019.
Navantia green energy director Javier Herrador said: “Navantia has made a firm commitment to green energy and offshore wind and we hope to contribute to promoting it development thanks to the latest generation technologies that we already apply in shipbuilding.”
Navantia commercial director of green energy Abel Mendez Diaz said: “This strategic alliance with Eolos constitutes a great opportunity for our companies to collaborate and expand our range of products and services in the renewable energy sector, as well as a great leap in the development of civil technology for the global offshore wind industry.”
Eolos chief executive Rajai Aghabi said: “This collaboration will allow us to extend the services we offer to our clients and cover the entire life cycle of an offshore wind farm, that is, from its development phase to operation and maintenance combining Navantia technology with our experience and infrastructure in global marine operations.”