AGENDA

A warm welcome to all delegates followed by a thematic overview of the day.

• Why should you choose a Full-Service Agreement (FSA)?
• What does best practice look like?
• How to track the progress, quality and documentation of repairs?
• Managing Warranty Claims Under an FSA
• End‑of‑FSA Strategy: Warranty Extension & Remediation

Q&A - Your chance to pose questions to the speaker

Learn key strategies to maximise your asset values and immediately apply them to your work:

• How to balance cost efficiency with long-term asset value
• Learn best budget measures for prioritising repairs and managing resource limits
• Offshore: Strategise to control rising costs and perform risk mitigation for large blade repairs
• How to establish OPEX costs for blades?
• Using data: How can automation help to make better predictions to maximise asset values?

Q&A - Engage with the speaker in a dedicated Q&A session

Moderator: Lene Hellstern, Chief Executive Officer, Wind Power LAB

Wind‑turbine blades are highly complex composite structures where even small, early‑stage defects can rapidly propagate under operational loads. Traditional inspection approaches often fail to detect internal or evolving damage, increasing the likelihood of costly failures and unplanned downtime. Advanced multi‑sensor monitoring systems that combine acceleration, acoustic, and gyroscopic data enable improved detection of structural anomalies and provide significantly more comprehensive diagnostic insight by combining vibration measurements with blade‑load and torsion data.

Q&A - Your chance to pose questions to the speaker

• Technology development process
• Overview of measurement strategy and practical installation experience from the field
• Potential for future deployment

Discover a new technology and its initial, tangible test results. This presentation will show you how a successful noise mitigation strategy can reduce operational constraints, increase site profitability, and protect your long-term asset value.

Improving Quality and Consistency Across the Lifecycle for Large Composite Structures: How Automation and Immersive Tools Elevate Manufacturing and Repair

• Facilitating innovation across the lifecycle: an introduction to the Large Structures Innovation Centre (LSIC), where research and development spans engineering and advanced manufacturing production technologies, through‑life support, and end‑of‑life solutions.
•  Automation case study: demonstrating how automation can streamline processes, reduce errors and increase repair throughput through rapid assessment and employing control for consistency and quality in repair.
• Factory‑to‑field capability: demonstrating potential for automation and immersive environments to bring manufacturing developments into in‑service environments.

Q&A - Time for your direct questions and insights

• What do operators need to understand about carbon blades to maximise performance and manage risk?
• What are the most critical operational challenges and their impact on downtime and cost?
• How should inspection, maintenance, and asset management strategies evolve for carbon-based blades?

Q&A - Your opportunity to ask questions directly to the speaker

• What is a good repair?

• What is the best way of marking?

• Innovative repair techniques for best results to help to improve LPS

• lightning protection. Are there specific protection and repair methods that work best with carbon blades?

• Actionable suggestions to perform pultrusion repairs suggestions

Q&A - Engage fully to ensure you gather all the valuable information

Moderator: Geoff Hoffheinz, Managing Director, Chief Engineer, Nuveen Infrastructure Clean Energy

What can be done?

This discussion is a great opportunity for the industry to have an open and productive conversation on how standards and working together can improve and help the wind industry to mature and prosper.

• How will this advance the industry, and can it be enforced?

• Producers, R&D, and operators - how to work together?

• Finding together best solutions for addressing common damage issues

Q&A - Contribute your perspective and ask questions to help you and the industry perform better!

Moderator: Matthew Hadden, Chief Engineer, Blades, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

Q&A - Direct questions and insights from the audience

Q&A - Contribute your perspective and ask questions to help you and the industry perform better!

• Europe’s wind sector is slowing due to permitting delays and grid constraints. Enhancing existing assets has become the most effective way to increase renewable generation. Reblading—replacing the existing rotor with longer, lightweight blades—offers a rapid, low‑risk route to unlock additional energy production.
• Reblading with new , longer and lighter blades, enables to increase the annual energy production without modifying towers, foundations, drivetrains or grid connection. This aligns strongly with net‑zero objectives, maximising energy per tonne of material and per km of grid capacity.

Q&A - Your opportunity to ask questions directly to the speaker

• What role does Inverness port's strategic location play in provide recycling access for both onshore and onshore wind farms
• Accelerated Development: Using a model factory to scale solutions, supported by The Crown Estate Supply Chain Accelerator
• Innovation: Semi-automatic cutting is deployed at quayside 
• Environmental Impact: Low-CO2 processes are employed to successfully divert waste from incineration and cement processing.