RWE Renewables has identified a large inefficiency in the maintenance of some of their older models of wind turbines. When a circuit breaker in the cabinet at the top of the turbine faults, they have no means of knowing which breaker it was or a means to reset it without sending a technician out to climb the turbine and simply flip a switch. Our project is the beginning phase of a full system to detect which breaker has faulted, relay that to the technicians/control center through both existing systems and custom-built solutions, and attempt to reset the breaker remotely.

Team Members

Tyler Burford, Luis Duran, Javier Elechiguerra, Marta Hervas, Angel Morenilla, Max Withrow