What are Tower Services?
Towers are a crucial component of any wind turbine system, playing a significant role in its overall performance. To maximise wind turbine efficiency, many customers opt for taller towers, as they enhance the system’s ability to harness wind energy. However, these towers can face potential damage during transportation, installation, or throughout their operational lifespan due to factors like extreme weather conditions.
For optimal performance and reliability of your Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) system, it is essential to maintain the integrity of the towers. Bladestar Renewables Ltd. offers expert tower services, including comprehensive wind turbine tower inspection and repair. Our skilled team specialises in the inspection and repair of towers made from various materials such as steel, concrete, and hybrid constructions, ensuring the highest levels of efficiency and safety for your wind turbine system.
Trust Bladestar Renewables Ltd. to deliver high-quality wind turbine tower repair and maintenance services, helping you achieve peak performance and longevity for your renewable energy assets.
Types of damage?
What are the most common types of damage to wind turbine towers?
- Corrosion:
Corrosion is one of the most common and damaging issues faced by wind turbine towers. Towers are typically made from steel, which is highly susceptible to rust and deterioration when exposed to moisture, salt, and other corrosive elements in the air. - Structural Fatigue:
Wind turbine towers endure constant stress from wind loads, vibrations, and dynamic forces during operation. This repeated loading and unloading can cause structural fatigue, which weakens the materials over time. - Weld Failure:
Welds are critical components in the construction of wind turbine towers, as they hold various parts of the tower together. However, over time, weld failures can occur due to poor welding quality, fatigue, or external forces like wind and vibration. - External Factors:
Weather conditions and environmental factors are major contributors to damage in wind turbine towers. Turbines are exposed to extreme conditions, including high winds, temperature fluctuations, snow, rain, and even lightning. These factors can accelerate wear on both the tower and its components.
By understanding these common damage types, wind turbine operators can take a proactive approach to tower services, ensuring that issues are detected early and addressed before they lead to costly repairs or system failures. Regular, thorough inspections are the best way to identify and prevent these types of damage, keeping wind turbines running efficiently and safely for years to come.
What We Offer
- Tower Inspection
- Tower Sealing
- Tower Spot Metal Repair
- Bolt Torquing
- Aviation Light Inspection
Bladestar Renewables Ltd have over 7,800 hours of active tower services & maintenance hours under our belts. We have been involved in various tower maintenance activities since 2019.
Tower Inspection Process
Our Tower Inspection Process is the cornerstone of our industry-leading Tower Services, engineered to keep your wind turbine towers safe, efficient, and future-ready. This rigorous process combines precision, proactive planning, and cutting-edge technology to deliver actionable insights you can count on.
1. Pre-Inspection Planning
Before any work begins, our experts conduct a thorough review of historical data, maintenance records, and engineering designs. This critical first step customises our Tower Inspection Process to your specific wind turbine towers, ensuring every potential risk is identified early.
2. Advanced On-Site Assessment
Leveraging state-of-the-art tools such as drone surveys, ultrasonic testing, and thermal imaging, our Tower Inspection Process delivers a detailed visual and technical evaluation. This comprehensive assessment uncovers signs of corrosion, fatigue, and structural weaknesses with pinpoint accuracy.
3. Detailed Data Analysis and Reporting
After the on-site assessment, our certified inspectors analyse the collected data to pinpoint early warning signs and critical issues. The result is a comprehensive report, complete with clear, actionable recommendations that form the backbone of our Tower Inspection Process.
4. Strategic Maintenance and Follow-Up
Our commitment extends beyond the initial inspection. We use the insights gained from our Tower Inspection Process to develop a strategic maintenance plan, ensuring your towers operate at peak performance and remain secure over the long term.
With our confident, bold, and reliable Tower Services Inspection Process, you can trust that your wind turbine towers are in expert hands—maximising uptime, extending asset lifespan, and protecting your renewable energy investment.
EDF has a wide and varied fleet of wind turbines which generates One Gigawatt of renewable energy. This sizeable fleet requires constant maintenance from specialist personnel and contractors in order to maintain the highest possible efficiency, one of those contractors is Bladestar Blade Repair.
Bladestar have been a great support to us during blade works with their detailed knowledge, experience and expertise in all areas of rope access. Their proactive approach to their projects has ensured that our 2024 blade repair campaign has went flawlessly. Their cost benefit analysis during an unforeseen critical repair allowed one of our assets to be repaired promptly and to a high quality. Thank you Bladestar for a superior service and look forward to working with you in the future.
Bladestar is a company that operates with the highest quality standards, providing added value to the repairs it performs.
Having Bladestar in charge of a repair guarantees success with minimal risk of damage recurrence.
I have worked with Chris and Bladestar extensively over the last two years on various blade repairs on the sites I oversee, and I can honestly say the Bladestar team are professional in all aspects. Their approach to each repair is unique and innovative and any hurdle encountered is met head-on with skill, knowledge and professionalism.
They have exceptional communication and they have consistently demonstrated their capacity to convey complex ideas with clarity and precision, both in writing and speech. Chris and his team’s dedication to accuracy is evident in all aspects of the repair work they have conducted for our sites, They have a keen eye for detail that ensures all information is conveyed correctly and without misunderstanding.
In addition to their communication skills, Chris and his team have proven time and again to be a reliable and committed team player and their positive attitude and ability to adapt to changing circumstances make them a valuable asset.
“We recently worked with BladeStar Renewables for extensive blade repairs on one of our LM 45.3P blades with the notorious chordways cracks, and we couldn’t be more satisfied with their performance. The team demonstrated exceptional expertise and professionalism throughout the entire process.
From the initial inspection to the completion of the repairs, their attention to detail and commitment to safety were evident. The quality of their work has ensured the optimal performance and longevity of our turbine blades.
We were particularly impressed by their efficiency in minimizing downtime and their clear communication at every stage. It’s rare to find a service provider with such a high level of technical skill combined with outstanding customer service.
We highly recommend BladeStar Renewables to anyone in need of reliable and high-quality wind turbine blade repairs.”
After suffering from Failures in Our hybrid cooling tower blades I was contacted by Blade Star who were confident they could provide a solution to enable us to
Repair our cracked blades and reuse them rather than disposing of them,
The repair procedure was fast, efficient, economical and it was well received as where the employees from blade Star
The repaired blades have been refitted to the cooling towers and have proved there worth and have been on the units for over a year with no failures,
