Content
There is a need for new innovative substructure concepts, including floating platforms, to reduce production, installation and O&M costs for water depths of more than 50m. LIFES50+ aims to:
- Optimize and qualify to a Technology Readiness Level – TRL of 5, two innovative substructure designs for 10MW turbines
- Develop a streamlined and KPI (key performance indicator) based methodology for the evaluation and qualification process of floating substructures
This is done with a particular focus on:
- Floating wind turbines installed in water depths from 50m to 200m
- Offshore wind farms of large wind turbines (10MW)
Applied methodologies include:
- Multi-fidelity numerical tools in the context of qualifying and optimizing large substructures
- Experimental techniques specific to floating offshore wind turbines
- Concept industrialization, as an early focus in the design
- Uncertainty and risk assessment related to unprecedented large wind turbine substructures
Organisation
Duration:
June 2015 to April 2019
Project coordination:
SINTEF Ocean
Finance:
funded by the Horizon2020 programm of the EU
with 7.3 Mio€
Project partners
Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult , UK
Dr.techn.Olav Olsen AS, Norway
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
DNV GL, Germany
Ramboll IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Politecnico di Milano , Italy
Fundación TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain
Iberdrola , Spain
Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain
Ideol, France
Content at SWE
Application and development of multi-fidelity tools, methods and models for the design of floating offshore wind turbines
Development of applicable recommended practices for the early design of floating offshore wind turbines
Contact at SWE
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Po Wen Cheng
Prof. Dr.Head of Wind Energy