NAVANTIA
S.A., S.M.E. and EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions SL have signed an agreement
for the development and commercial exploitation of services devoted to
the inspection, diagnosis and monitoring of offshore wind farms using and
operating unmanned marine vehicles combined with meteorological data acquisition
systems.
The two companies have signed an exclusivity agreement for the development
and commercial roll-out of technology, products and services for the Operation
and Maintenance of offshore wind farms using advanced sensor technology
combined with unmanned marine and aerial vehicles.
Demonstration tests in the real environment are expected to commence October
this year off the Spanish coast where the Unmanned Service Vessel (USV)
Vendaval from Navantia is already operating since 2019 being the first
USV operating in commercial missions in Spain.
”Navantia has made a firm commitment to green energy and offshore wind
and we hope to contribute to promoting it development thanks to the latest
generation technologies that we already apply in shipbuilding,” said
Navantia’s Green Energy Director, Javier Herrador.
Abel Méndez Díaz, Commercial Director of Green Energy at Navantia, commented:
“this strategic alliance with EOLOS constitutes a great opportunity
for our companies to collaborate and expand our range of products and services
in the renewable energy sector, as well as a great leap in the development
of civil technology for the global offshore wind industry ”.
Rajai Aghabi, CEO of EOLOS, stated: “this collaboration will allow
us to extend the services we offer to our clients and cover the entire
life cycle of an offshore wind farm, that is, from its development phase
to operation and maintenance combining Navantia technology with our experience
and infrastructure in global marine operations”
Jordi Puigcorbé, Director of Innovation at EOLOS said: “unmanned vehicle
technologies, whether marine, aerial or especially the collaborative combination
of both will be key to making Offshore Wind an increasingly competitive,
automated source, with fewer safety risks and more balanced with the marine
and environmental environments in which it operates”.