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Extending Offshore Wind-Farm Lifetime Through Predictive Maintenance
Main TrackOffshore WindJERA Nex bp
UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D Call
JERA Nex bp (JNbp)
is a purpose-built offshore wind company with the resources, capabilities and resilience to deliver offshore wind at scale. With the backing of two of the world’s leading energy companies – JERA and bp – our ambition is to safely deliver the abundant, clean, secure and affordable energy the world needs as part of a competitive and sustainable global industry.
JNbp has a 13 GW portfolio of offshore wind projects under development and operation globally. This challenge focuses on extending wind-farm lifetimes beyond the typical 25 to 30 years by improving monitoring, inspection, maintenance/repair, and infrastructure upgrades across key subsystems.
Potential failure modes include cables and cable-protection systems (for example, scour and fatigue), blade repair post-warranty, and foundation/tower integrity, where structural fatigue and corrosion are dominant life-limiting mechanisms.
There is a desire to develop quantitative methods to detect early degradation and translate it into remaining useful life (RUL) estimates, to reduce the potential for costly component replacements.
JNbp seeks innovations that enable operators to move from reactive to predictive asset management, by identifying issues earlier and quantifying how long components can safely operate before major intervention.
The objective is to develop integrated technologies and methodologies that combine monitoring, analytics, and repair capabilities to support decisions about when to inspect, repair, or upgrade, while keeping assets safe and profitable beyond their original design life.
How might we improve the early identification of failure modes and remaining useful life of offshore wind-farm components, enabling safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation beyond the original 25-year design life?
Your proposed solution may address either focus area:
- Inspection and identification: The early detection of faults and RUL estimation to enable risk-based maintenance
- Maintenance and repair: The proactive interventions to slow degradation, for example, robotics, advanced materials, and autonomous repair
Requirements
Technical Requirements:
- Must align with relevant IEC and DNV lifetime-extension standards (for example, DNVGL-ST-0262).
- Must demonstrate scalability to ~1 GW commercial wind farms.
- Should support or enable risk-based inspection and integrity management, linking inspection frequency and criticality to quantified degradation data.
- Must be applicable to one or more of the following subsystems: turbines, jackets/foundations (below water), cables (array/export), and offshore substations.
- If providing hardware for inspection or sensing, it must be supported by a digital analytics component that interprets collected data for lifetime estimation.
Performance Requirements:
- Must show measurable improvement in lifetime assessment accuracy or inspection efficiency versus current practice.
- Should demonstrate RUL prediction capability that supports optimised maintenance scheduling and reduces unplanned downtime.
- Solutions should quantify impacts through KPIs such as:
- Reduction in inspection frequency or cost (%)
- Extended operational life (years)
- Increase in asset uptime (%)
Financial Considerations:
- The solution should present a clear cost-benefit case, linking implementation costs to lifetime extension value and OPEX reduction.
Who Should Apply:
- Expected Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 in 12 to 18 months.
- Solutions may include digital twins, AI-based degradation models, robotic inspection, or data fusion platforms that correlate operational loads with damage progression.
Potential Sustainability Impact:
- Lowering embodied carbon, as extending asset lifetimes reduces the need for new manufacturing and installation activities
- Optimised inspection and maintenance, as operational availability is extended and decommissioning expenses are deferred
- Longer asset life, maintaining renewable generation capacity without additional infrastructure investment
POC / Pilot & Incentives
Expected POC / Pilot & Timeline:
- Timeline: Expected Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 in 12 to 18 months
- POC validation: A POC could potentially review a novel approach for lifetime extension on a single component, environmental validation may be in a lab environment prior to offshore testing. Proposals will be reviewed by the Technology and Innovation team for potential R&D demonstration support. Plans should outline specific steps for data integration, testing, and IP management, and indicate willingness for bilateral R&D collaboration.
POC / Pilot Support:
- Review of submissions by JNbp Technology team and relevant technical engineering leads
- Potential for technology demonstration project utilising UK–Singapore Collaborative R&D Call (jointly administered by Innovate UK and Enterprise Singapore)
Further Opportunities:
- Potential engagement with JNbp venture capital affiliates (as JNbp engages with multiple VC organisations which invest in start-up technologies)
- As first-generation projects approach end-of-design life (post-2030), demand for lifetime-extension solutions will increase rapidly.
- Global offshore wind capacity could reach 277GW by the end of 2030 - nearly a four-fold increase from 2024 (source: Renewable UK).
Info Session
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