Training is one of the most vital aspects of the Renewable Energy Sector, although it’s also true at the same time that specialized training can cost companies a lot.
Virtual Reality isn’t a new technology, and it’s been around for a long time for people to get used to the basics of it. It can be applied to new and exciting directions. The introduction of Virtual Reality to Renewable Energy has a lot to bring to the table.
It has the potential to take the sting out of the training cost almost entirely, and it can offer a level of interactivity never seen before.
The most basic thing it brings to the table is a cost-effective solution than what the majority of companies need. Just comparing the cost of transport on-site is less than the entire VR package.
Virtual Reality also happens to be 100% safer than on-site training. Where one would normally have needed to visit the site, which isn’t always a friendly commute, you can now just log in and see almost everything you need to – without any of the associated risks.
It’s a lot easier to match up with someone’s schedule in an online environment rather than to meet them somewhere physical for a meeting, especially when we’re talking about groups of people undergoing training.
Virtual Reality allows one to see and showcase the things that would have been pretty hard to do without the help of Virtual Reality. With Virtual Reality, the majority of the planning can be done away from the actual site with a lot more convenience.
Visualization has always been a very powerful tool, and Virtual Reality offers the closest form of it that you can get. With virtual reality, the conditions surrounding the site can be adapted or introduced. For example, do you need to see how the wind turbines would behave in different wind conditions or a storm? You can do that with just a few clicks, and from there on you can make adaptations to your planning – or your training – based on the data you’ve seen.
The transition from a real environment to a virtual one doesn’t take nearly as much time or effort as you would think, nor does it have to cost thousands of dollars for you to do it. Setting up a virtual environment could be a lot cheaper than having to cart your entire team of people over to the actual turbines – and with the use of Virtual Reality, you aren’t limited by anything like space, availability or any physical limitations of the people or the environment. This can be done with 360 video production and the use of overlays to add interactivity to any given realistic scene.
Virtual Reality can be used for training at almost any chosen phase of the product where you need it, and it can be used to represent several different types of situations. This is the freedom that physically going to the site can never give you just because you can’t alter circumstances in an offline world. But in the virtual one, it’s limited only by your imagination.
Renewable Energy solutions should always come from Renewable Sources. It’s what keeps the entire cycle of sustainability going. Even in the field of training, a lot can be done to reduce the carbon footprint for just how much you’re putting into the environment.
The excellent thing about Virtual Reality is the fact that it’s Renewable, too. Very little energy and resources are used when setting up a virtual environment than you would have used carting the training group there in a jet. It’s this sustainability factor that’s helped to make Virtual Reality an even better choice for the future.
Virtual Reality allows for research that would have been either impossible or wildly expensive without its use. Making research more accessible for companies will inevitably also affect how easy newer, groundbreaking research will be to bring to the table.
Easier research means faster and better research at the same time. We can thank VR for its ability to research renewable energy in real-time environments. Undeniably valuable and could change the face of the Renewable Energy Sector.
