After finishing the primary full-year fowl survey in Norway utilizing the AI bird-tracking know-how developed by the Norwegian start-up Spoor, Deep Wind Offshore will introduce the know-how to the Swedish and South Korean offshore wind markets.
Spoor has been monitoring birds on the Utsira Nord floating wind space in Norway on behalf of Deep Wind Offshore over the previous yr, with the digicam fitted on a lighthouse on the island of Utsira, off whose coast the Norwegian authorities is tendering 1.5 GW of floating wind era capability.
Deep Wind Offshore, in partnership with EDF Renewables, has submitted a bid for the qualitative Utsira Nord tender. The federal government, which simply introduced the winner of the fixed-bottom tender for the Southern North Sea II space, is predicted to additionally announce the chosen builders for Utsira Nord this yr.
Norwegian start-up Spoor, whose know-how Deep Wind Offshore used for fowl surveys on the floating wind space, has developed software program that allows the wind business to measure and report on fowl influence, operationalise evaluation, and implement mitigation measures, the offshore wind developer stated.
Spoor’s bird-tracking know-how estimates a fowl’s 3D flight path. This knowledge supplies insights on fowl flight patterns, pre and post-construction. Primarily based on a fowl’s flight path, Spoor can detect doable collisions and different flight exercise close to generators.
Now, Deep Wind Offshore has determined to make use of the know-how in different markets it has offshore wind tasks in growth.
The corporate has a pipeline of greater than than 10 GW, together with 2 GW below unique growth in South Korea. On the finish of final yr, Deep Wind Offshore additionally submitted a allow utility for the development and operation of a wind farm offshore Sweden.
“Coexistence is essential for succeeding with offshore wind growth. After gaining beneficial info from Spoor’s fowl monitoring in Norway, we’ll now use the know-how in Sweden and South Korea,” stated Knut Vassbotn, CEO of Deep Wind Offshore.
“We’re thrilled with the chance to affix Deep Wind Offshore in different markets. This is a vital validation of our know-how,” stated Ask Helseth, CEO of Spoor.
In addition to Deep Wind Offshore and the undertaking in Norway, Spoor has additionally been working with different offshore wind builders as its AI tech strikes on the commercialisation path.
In 2022, the corporate noticed investments from Ørsted and enterprise capital corporations Nysnø Local weather Investments (Nysnø), Wiski Capital, Norrsken Basis, and Antler by way of a seed funding spherical that was aimed toward serving to to check and commercialise the brand new know-how.
Final yr, Vattenfall and the British Belief for Ornithology teamed up with Spoor on a undertaking to check the AI know-how in monitoring 3D flight paths of seabirds flying close to the wind turbine blades at Vattenfall’s Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland. The testing is predicted to be accomplished in June 2024.
