In June 2020, SICAE de la Somme and the Nantes-based startup Sterblue, who builds the central platform for energy infrastructure inspections, signed a collaboration agreement.

Sterblue is going live! In Q3 2020, we are publicly releasing a trial of our software solution for wind turbines, so that you can test the different features and capabilities! Distribution grid, transmission grid and other use cases will follow right after!

Sterblue landed in Oceania for the first time ever! The goal was ambitious: automate the transmission grid inspection process of an important Australian Transmission System Operator (TSO) using off-the-shelf drones and Sterblue’s artificial intelligence (AI).‍

Two years after meeting Sterblue for the first time as part of the Free Electrons Programme, ESB is proud to announce that the French startup has been awarded a long-term contract to complete independent inspections of turbine blades on its wind farms.

A year and a half after our last visit, Sterblue returned to the Ivory Coast to kickstart the transmission grid inspection mission with the Compagnie Ivoirienne d'Electricité and African Techno Lab.

Sterblue's mission in Romania: with temperatures hitting nearly 40 degrees Celsius, we came to the field to inspect wind turbines. By operating drones with the Sterblue App, we acted from the ground level and avoided climbing wind turbines in the heat of high summer.