Project description
Floating offshore wind on new structures
Wind power is strong on land but stronger and more stable at sea. This fact has positioned offshore wind farms as a cornerstone of the energy transition. Thanks to floating structures, wind turbines can now be installed in deep water far from the shore, on platforms anchored to the seabed by chains or steel cables. In this context, the EU-funded NEXTFLOAT project will design an integrated system of lightweight floating platform with a proprietary PivotBuoy connection system. This new design reduces the structure’s weight and greatly improves mooring and installation techniques and costs. The project also proposes using aluminium as a conductor material for the dynamic cable. This innovative concept will be demonstrated at the MISTRAL site in the Mediterranean Sea.
Objective
NEXTFLOAT aims at reducing the LCOE and increase the competitiveness of floating offshore wind (FOW) to accelerate large-scale deployment. The project will demonstrate an integrated system composed of X1’s lightweight floating platform with its proprietary PivotBuoy connection system – a novel design for offshore wind platforms that optimizes the structural design, reduces weight of the structure and greatly improves mooring and installation techniques and costs – and 2BE’s 2-bladed downwind turbine – an advanced rotor that requires less material, fewer components, reduced capital and operational costs and improved environmental benefits. The project also proposes innovations to bring cost-efficiency improvements to the dynamic cable by using aluminium as a conductor material. This innovative concept will be demonstrated in MISTRAL site in the Mediterranean Sea.
The design of a 14MW fully integrated system will be developed with a strong focus on optimizing the technological solutions for deep waters and making it suitable for different EU offshore sites. In parallel, this design will take into account mass production and large-scale deployment as key elements to make floating offshore wind a competitive renewable energy source. The project will develop an industrialization roadmap for this FOW concept, in order to facilitate the mass production.
Finally, NEXTFLOAT will define a commercial plan for future large-scale deployment that integrates cross-cutting aspects to ensure a sustainable replication based on the analysis of costs, life cycle assessment and socio-economic factors.
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2713 AW Zoetermeer
Netherlands
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Participants (18)
92741 Nanterre Cedex
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13382 MARSEILLE CEDEX 13
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08034 Barcelona
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28028 Madrid
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7559 SC Hengelo
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48432 Rheine
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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31240 NAVARRA
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115 27 Athina
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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612 31 FINSPONG
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9060 Zelzate
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44321 Nantes Cedex 3
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43480 VILASECA
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77740 YALOVA
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08007 Barcelona
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43480 VILASECA
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28023 MADRID
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43204 REUS
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