The innovation is in line with the UK government’s policy of increasing renewable power to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. This has led to a significant growth in installed wind power capacity within the last decade, especially in offshore wind power in the UK which is the world’s sixth largest producer of wind power. This growth has also meant a higher level of maintenance required across the industry with more wind turbines and more blades needing to be checked for faults. At the moment one of the ways surveys are carried out is manually by maintenance engineers climbing the wind turbine and its blades with rope access. Turbine blades are subjected to gusting wind loads, driving the accumulation of fatigue damage in the blade structures, leading to failures. Around 3,800 blade failures a year are attributed to poor maintenance. There’s also a significant financial cost to such manual inspections.