About ISL Wind
ISL Wind is a bespoke renewables innovations
company, with a wealth of experience in many fields. More recently in
the past few years it has been developing a revolutionary product for
the wind industry. The wind project started life in 2005 with its
founding member Mr A Rowell.
He has a communications and energy background
working on optical fibre communications throughout Europe. After working
in the optical fibre industry, one of his contracts was to install and
test optical fibres on a wind farm in Northern Ireland. After a brief
discussion Mr Rowell decided that they would like to get into the wind
industry and ideas started flowing. After a few long years of thought
and design ideas the concept was born, a cleaning, inspection and repair
pod specifically for servicing wind turbines. Ironically, the first
demonstration of their invention was on the wind farm that he had
installed the optical fibres on, this was pure coincidence.
Objective
The objective of ISL Wind is to sell its
products, which include a full range of services by utilising its
invention to compliment the Wind Turbine market. Services for sale
include the inspection, cleaning, analysis, repair, X-Ray (tower welds)
and ongoing general maintenance of Wind Turbines and their blades
in-situ across Europe, USA, South America, Canada & Asia.
Why
With over 369 GW of operational wind turbine
power in the world (as at end 2014 GWEC) alone, we think that there is
an ideal opportunity to expand on our service sales allowing ISL Wind to
grow in an ever growing sector of the renewable energy market.
The lifespan of a wind turbine blade is
considered to be 15/20 years, we believe that with the right maintenance
program, the blades proposed lifespan can be achieved and surpassed
therefore avoiding any unnecessary capital expenditure.
The ISL Wind Service Platform (ISL1) enables us
to inspect with the combined use of still images (input into a live
report for clients), clean and polish the wind turbine blades and with
the use of specialised non destructive testing equipment (when required)
test and analyse areas of the blade which may be in need of repair. The
repair if necessary will then be carried out from the service
platform/pod. The cleaning and polishing of blades can improve the power
output of a wind turbines and improve the condition of the blades
external surface. A planned maintenance schedule to include the
cleaning, polishing, scanning and testing will help prolong the lifetime
of wind turbine blades, which in turn increases operational efficiency
and the continued generation of power.
Wind Turbine Market Place
The global market of installed wind power has
risen again through 2014. The USA, South America, China, Canada and
India are our main targets for sales, beginning with the USA and South
America and then the rest of the world. The worldwide total number of
GW's is in excess of 369 GW and the total number of GW’s installed in
the USA alone is in excess of 65,500 mw's.
In total there are over 1200 major wind farms in the USA, with over 65
GW of installed wind turbines to service and maintain. This is just one
country’s example.