Revolutionising Access to Offshore Wind Farms | Limpet Technology | Backing the Game Changers

Maintenance of offshore windfarms is essential, but wave conditions can make crew transfers from vessel to turbine tricky, at best. Today, wave heights above 1.5m are considered too dangerous, so failed transfers are expensive, and all too common. A solution will soon be available thanks to a game-changing dynamic hoist designed by Edinburgh innovators, Limpet Technology.
The system uses inbuilt lasers to track the motion of a vessel’s deck, adjusting the height of the hoist in real time.
The Limpet Offshore Personnel Transfer System is currently being tested at the ORE Catapult’s 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration Turbine in Fife Scotland. It is expected to double the safe crew transfer height to 3 metres, increasing accessibility to far-offshore installations from 50% of the year to 80%.

[@kevinsmith9266]

Looks like a real difficult job working on wind turbines. Doubt many Americans will be in shape to handle this kind of work.

[@carolinalira9582]

This could potentially help pilots to board ships safer.

[@MassiveBenny]

6 years ago - Never happened then?

[@philiptaylor292]

It did happen. This project was spun out into a new company called Pict Offshore, which was invested in by Orsted, the world's largest developer of offshore windfarms. In the past few years, they have deployed the system onto their largest offshore windfarm (Hornsea 2 in the UK) and 3 new windfarms in the USA.