Nabla Wind Hub Participates In The WINDlife Project To Extend The Lifespan Of Wind Turbine Components
Nabla Wind Hub announces its participation in the WINDlife project, a collaborative initiative driven by a consortium of Basque companies aimed at researching and developing innovative technologies to optimize operations and extend the lifetime of wind turbines.
The project is led by Hine and includes the participation of Alerion, Glual Energy, Izadi, Laulagun Bearings, Erreka, and Nabla Wind Hub, bringing together key capabilities across the wind energy value chain.
WINDlife focuses on the design of advanced inspection, remanufacturing, and in-situ functional recovery solutions for critical components, with the goal of improving the operational efficiency of wind farms. It will also enable new management and operational strategies, including alternative approaches such as repurposing and upgrading existing assets.
In this context, Nabla Wind Hub contributes its specialized expertise to address the main challenges associated with aging wind farms, including:
- Optimization of maintenance strategies, both scheduled and corrective, reducing costs associated with component replacement or recovery.
- Extension of wind farm lifetime through the development of key knowledge on component degradation, predictive models, and in-situ remanufacturing technologies.
In addition, Nabla Wind Hub leads the analysis of sustainability criteria and the development of digital decision-making tools for lifetime extension strategies. As part of this work, the company will develop a probabilistic tool based on aeroelastic loads to estimate component degradation and determine the optimal technical and business decision based on asset condition.
The WINDlife project is funded by the Basque Government’s Department of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability (HAZITEK 2025 Program) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF 2021–2027).
