A recent ORE Catapult report provided strong evidence that the cost of energy from offshore wind continued to fall through 2015 and remains on track to deliver the target of £100/MWh by 2020. Source: https://ore.catapult.org.uk/
New patent granted
The patent of WindCrete floating platform concept has been granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office: Application number: 14/795288 Patent number: 9238896 You can access to the UPSTO following the link attached. USPTO Link
A Monolithic Concrete Platform for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
A novel concept of a floating platform for supporting wind turbines (named WindCrete) has been developed at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in order to substantially reduce the capital expenditure or CAPEX for floating offshore wind turbines. The concept … Read More
25MW Floating Wind Farm Planned off Portugal
EDP Renewables (EDPR), Mitsubishi Corporation (through its subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe), Chiyoda Corporation (through its subsidiary Chiyoda Generating Europe), Engie and Repsol today announced an agreement to implement a floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Northern Portugal, known … Read More
UPC Develops Low-Cost Floating Turbine
Researchers at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have designed and patented a floating platform for offshore wind turbines that can reduce energy costs to 12 euro cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) … Read More
El invento catalán para generar energía eólica “low cost”: flotadores de hormigón
Océanos y mares disponen en abundancia del recurso más importante para la industria eólica: el viento. Pero antes de llenar las aguas de turbinas flotantes primero hay que abaratar los costes de producción. Ahora, un equipo de investigadores españoles ha patentado … Read More
Investigadores de la Politécnica patentan aerogenerador marino de bajo coste
Investigadores de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC) han diseñado y patentado una plataforma flotante para aerogeneradores marinos que reduce a la mitad el coste de la energía obtenida con un diseño más eficiente y … Read More
Expertos de la UPC diseñan y patentan un aerogenerador marino “low cost”
Investigadores del Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) han diseñado y patentado una plataforma flotante para aerogeneradores marinos que podrá reducir el coste de la energía a 12 céntimos de euro por quilovatio … Read More
