Development of technologies and tools for the design of 10 MW floating wind turbines, installed at water depths of between 50 m and 200 m. 4 technologies for floating wind power have been designed and evaluated, considering three different operation environments. Two of the concepts have been validated in a hydrodynamic channel and wind tunnel, analysing their industrialisation.
The project considers the design of four floating structure concepts for a 10 MW wind turbine, considering the design conditions of three sites. Based on technical, economic and industrial criteria, two of them were selected and validated by means of channel and wind tunnel tests.
Analysis of the existing design methodology is also considered, providing procedures to simplify and optimise the development of these structures in order to reduce risks and costs.
Users of the results are not only technologists from the consortium (NAUTILUS, Iberdrola, Olav Olsen and IDEOL), but also other developers, manufacturers, researchers and decision bodies involved in the development of floating wind power.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, under Grant Agreement No. H2020-LCE-2014-1-640741.
