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Drone Inspection · Skydio

Skydio: Dominion Adds 100 Docked Drones and Turns Linemen Into Pilots

Dominion Energy added 100 Skydio docked drones, says Adam Bry. Dominion says they save 8 to 12 hours per event and open pilot jobs for linemen.

Haye KestelooOct 162 min read

White Airspection VTOL drone with wings and a tail rotor flying over a sandy beach with a row of offshore wind turbines on the horizon

BVLOS

Airspection Drone Skips the Boat on BVLOS Run to UK Wind Farm

Glasgow's Airspection flew a shore-launched drone 8.7 miles round trip to a Liverpool Bay wind farm beyond line of sight in the UK CAA's BVLOS sandbox.

Haye KestelooOct 6

United States

After Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric Bets on Drone Inspections

Two and a half years after a downed power line sparked the fire that killed 102 people and erased most of Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric is flying drones over every island it serves, as Maui News reported. The utility has contracted three separate inspection firms across Maui County, Molokai, the Big Island, and Oahu, all targeting…

Rafael SuárezApr 29

DJI

Donecle’s €10M Inspection Drone Raise Meets America’s Aircraft Mechanic Shortage

Donecle raised €10M for inspection drones two weeks before WSJ reported America's aviation mechanic shortage. The two stories explain each other.

Haye KestelooApr 27

Skydio

SWEPCO Sends Skydio X10 Drones to Scout Power Lines in East Texas

East Texas utility SWEPCO has a new way to find the branches that will kill your power before they actually do it. The drones are already flying. The Problem With Trees and Power Lines Vegetation management is the unglamorous backbone of electric utility reliability. Branches grow. Trees lean. Storms push limbs into conductors and the…

Rafael SuárezMar 17

DJI

State Grid Bets $250 Million on DJI Drones — And It’s Not a Pilot Program

DJI Enterprise secures a landmark $250 million contract with State Grid Corporation of China. Discover how the Matrice 4T and Zenmuse L2 are moving drone power line inspections from experimental pilots to massive 24/7 autonomous operations.

Haye KestelooMar 16

FlytBase

EnBW to Share Dock-Based Drone Strategy for Solar Inspections in Free Webinar

EnBW, one of Germany’s largest energy companies, will reveal how it’s using autonomous dock-based drones for solar PV inspections in a free webinar this Thursday. The session, hosted jointly with drone autonomy platform FlytBase, runs January 29 at 3:00 PM CET (8:00 AM CT). EnBW tackles the solar inspection scaling problem Solar PV inspections look…

Haye KestelooJan 27

Drone Inspection

JLR Drone Trial Cuts Inspection Time By 95%

JLR has rolled out an ambitious drone trial at its Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton, where the Elios 3 from Flyability sliced a four hour inspection routine down to ten minutes, a time collapse so extreme it feels almost cartoonish until you realize it is simply the inevitable direction of factory automation, as Jaguar…

Rafael SuárezDec 12

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