Acteon is providing operations and maintenance for the 50-MW Kincardine offshore wind farm in the central UK North Sea, 15 km from Aberdeen.
The development comprises five V164-9.5 MW turbines mounted on Principle Power WindFloat platforms in water depths ranging from 60 m to 80 m. The turbines have been operating since October 2021.
Grupo Cobra, which operates the facilities on behalf of Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Ltd. (KOWL), recently awarded the operations and maintenance contract.
Acteon’s structural monitoring specialist subsidiary Pulse will design, supply and install structural health and motion monitoring systems for the floating wind turbines.
The systems will include six-degree-of-freedom motion monitoring and position and heading sensors on the platforms, load strain gauges and data connectivity infrastructure.
Under the same contract, Acteon’s 2H division is developing a structural response digital twin based on machine learning techniques to provide insight into asset response during operations, supply an early indication of potential anomalies, and help optimize future inspection and survey work.
Over the course of the 18-month program, Acteon will collaborate with Grupo Cobra on deployment of digital twin technology.
The project has support from Red.es via the Spanish Recovery and Resilience Plan, which is in turn funded by the EU (Next Generation EU).
