Swiss-Danish technology and service company Romo Wind is partnering with Italian outfit Eta Blades to provide solutions that extend the lifetime and improve the performance of older wind farms.
The partners will combine Romo Wind’s iSpin system, which monitors project performance, and Eta’s capability to re-design and manufacture lighter and aerodynamically more efficient blades for older turbines to provide a refurbishment package for ageing wind farms.
Eta Blades founder Carlo Durante said: “The advanced iSpin measurement technology with its unprecedented abilities to monitor wind speed, direction, yaw misalignment and turbulence intensity as well as the performance on each of the turbines in a wind farm helps us to optimise turbine operations for our re-blading projects to maximise power output while still keeping within design limits.”
Romo Wind chief executive Brian Sorensen said: “Based on Eta Blades deep understanding of airfoils and wind turbine loads, Romo Wind further steps into helping customers improve asset performances and extend the life time of their ageing wind assets with outstanding re-blading solutions.”