Significant research efforts are now being directed at floating offshore wind turbines. The main challenge posed by floating wind turbines is the high construction and installation costs of the substructure, which make it too expensive for commercial exploitation in the … Read More
Redefining the cost debate – The concept of society’s cost of electricity
Offshore wind is one of the world’s most promising and climate-friendly energy-producing technologies. However critics continue to point out the higher costs, relative to more conventional power sources (also onshore wind). Source: http://www.energy.siemens.com/
With floating platforms, offshore wind cost set to plunge
Floating wind turbines offer huge falls in the cost of offshore wind power and could be generating power in UK waters at well under the cost of new nuclear by 2020, provided adequate support. Source: http://www.theecologist.org/
EWEA Rebrands to WindEurope
The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has announced that will become WindEurope. The organisation explained that its brand needed to evolve as the wind energy, which moved from a niche sector to a mainstream industry, is evolving. Link: WindEurope Web Source: Offshorewind.biz
Concrete Floating Turbine Economizes Wind Power
Under the guidelines of AFOSP, Climent Molins and Alexis Campos of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, present Windcrete, a floating cylindrical base that has a concrete, rather than steel, structure. They claim … Read More
New report confirms offshore wind costs falling fast
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
