High costs stand in the way of a rapidly expanding offshore wind energy industry. Premature failure of subsea cables costs the industry millions of dollars a year. But better condition monitoring can enable predictive maintenance strategies that avoid catastrophic failure and reduce the cost of repairs.
Speaking to Renewable Energy Magazine, Indeximate co-founder, Dr Chris Minto, outlined how wide use of fibre optic sensing data to monitor cables in the industry, is essential for improving reliability and helping the sector to eliminate financial losses that have until now been seen as unavoidable.
Read more of Chris’s interview here.
