TECNALIA will be at this forum, at the Basque Energy Cluster stand, together with Nautilus, to showcase engineering services for the deployment of floating wind farms.
The event will feature dozens of talks, hundreds of speakers and more than 400 exhibitors from across the value chain looking to showcase their innovations and close new deals. The latest onshore and offshore wind science and technology, as well as the latest market and policy developments, will be presented by top speakers from industry, government and finance.
Increasing floating offshore wind capacity is key to increasing the renewable energy production needed for the global energy transition, but it relies on developers installing wind farms in deep offshore areas. To achieve this, the technology must be fully commercialised.
There are barriers that need to be addressed and overcome for floating offshore wind to reach its full potential.
- Choosing and designing the floating substructure for each site and machine is a key step in the right direction.
- In addition, technical challenges such as the response to movement of the floating substructure due to environmental conditions must be taken into account.
- There are also several operational factors to be analysed such as supply chains, port infrastructure and operation and maintenance (O&M).
TECNALIA’s floating wind energy services
In order to effectively commercialise floating wind energy, developers can rely on TECNALIA. TECNALIA has 20 years of offshore experience:
- Engineering services for offshore wind farm deployment
- Tests on a reduced scale in the laboratory and under real operating conditions and subsequent calibration/correlation with the numerical models.
- O&M: asset digitalisation and stand-alone and precision O&M solutions.
TECNALIA enhances the way in which inspection and maintenance tasks are carried out
Its aerial robot, designed with omnidirectional flight architecture, is able to operate in adverse weather conditions while maintaining high precision performance.
- Not only is this development suitable for a wide range of applications, from inspecting wind turbine blades to measuring the thickness of gas tanks and checking welds;
- but it also eliminates the need for manual intervention and improves the automation of tasks at height or in remote areas.