Climent Molins, vice-rector of the UPC, warns that we must also consider floating offshore wind to achieve the proposed emission reduction for the next decades. The Spanish Government believes that the time has come for offshore wind power. By 2030, … Read More
Kincardine floating wind farm has started delivering electricity to Scotland’s grid
The 50-MW Kincardine offshore floating wind farm, composed by five Vestas V164-9.5 MW and one V80-2 MW turbine installed on Principle Power WindFloat semisubmersible platforms, has started delivering electricity to Scotland’s grid. According to its developers, this is the world’s … Read More
WindCrete, one of the 34 concepts for floating wind in the world
The world’s potential development of floating wind farms reaches 95,000 MW, according to the European Commission. Read more: https://www.energias-renovables.com/
WindFloat Atlantic represents major offshore wind milestone
Installed in 100m of water off the coast of Portugal, the WindFloat Atlantic project is widely regarded as a major milestone in the technological advancement of the offshore wind energy industry. Read more: https://www.offshore-mag.com/
Concrete is becoming the preferred material for most floating platforms
Saitec Offshore Technologies and RWE Renewables have selected Ferrovial to manufacture and assemble the SATH floating platform in the DemoSATH project. Source: https://www.offshore-mag.com/
Siemens Gamesa 14 MW Wind Turbine unveiled
Siemens Gamesa unveils the new SG 14-222 DD, a new generation of offshore wind turbines of 14MW (up to 15MW with Power Boost) and based on Direct Drive technology with a total rotor diameter of 222m. Read more: https://www.siemensgamesa.com/
WindEurope sees a clearly green Recovery of Europe after the pandemic crisis
The new EU Budget for 2021-27 and a new Recovery Fund, of amount to €1.85tn of total investment, can place renewables energies driving the economic recovery at same time that energy transition is boosted. Under this scenario, wind energy is … Read More
Good news for Mediterranean floating offshore wind energy deployment
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved financing the development of the 30 MW demonstration project at Golfe du Lion, 220km far from Barcelona, which commissioning is scheduled for 2022. The wind farm will feature three V164 MHI Vestas 10 … Read More
WindCrete was present at the 2nd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference (IOWTC2019) organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Fatigue design is a key factor to ensure the reliability of offshore structures. Floating offshore Wind Turbines are subjected to cyclic phenomena coming from waves, wind and own vibrations. These loads have to be considered in order to assess the … Read More
