Renewable energy software company Clir is targeting leading edge erosion with a new tool designed to detect the problem based on data alone.
The Canadian outfit, which recently set up shop in Europe, said its new solution would enable clients to “identify and request repairs or replacement of blades at the most economically sound time”.
Clir said detecting leading edge issues during a warranty period would allow maintenance to be planned and scheduled and have “a huge and positive financial impact”.
“It took a whole team of domain, data science, and software experts to create data architecture that isolates leading edge erosion from other underperformance issues,” it added.
Clir said data from wind farms is “inherently poorly structured and noisy” which makes it difficult to parse out the leading edge erosion impact from items like turbine control changes, environmental conditions, and other performance degrading conditions.
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Clir sharp on leading edge
By EBS