We are thrilled to announce that a recent paper coauthored by members of the WindCrete team has been published in the prestigious journal, Ocean Engineering. The paper, titled “Experimental Modelling of a Novel Concrete-Based 15-MW Spar Wind Turbine”, represents a … Read More
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/
A recent paper focus in the Construction possibilities for windcrete serial production
The monolithic nature of Windcrete, that sees floater, transition piece and tower as a single concrete structure, has direct impact on its potential construction process. The large-draft spar-buoy, to be fully completed in a coastal facility, requires horizontal transport that … Read More
WindCrete at EERA DeepWind’18 Conference
Windcrete was present at the EERA DeepWind’18 Conference presenting Construction Possibilities for Serial Production of Monolithic Concrete Spar Buoy Platforms. Access to Conference Web page here. Access to presented poster here.
Section about concrete floaters in the March issue of RECHARGEnews
Inside the March issue of RECHARGEnews there is an entire section dedicated to Concrete Floaters for offshore wind turbines. Darius Snieckus has talked to Professor Climent Molins about Windcrete and found the technology interesting due to its innovative design. The … Read More
Expensive, but with much potential
This is how the swiss magazine Tages Anzeiger defines the new Offshore Wind Energy. The concept WindCrete is showed as an alternative to reduce the high costs of the floating platforms, using the concrete as a main structural material. Source … Read More
Spanish researchers develop novel concrete floating platform
Windcrete, a new Spar-type floating substructure that is designed to carry wind turbines of up to 10MW in deep offshore environments, could provide a high level of reliability and lower installation, maintenance and construction costs than alternatives, says a team … Read More
The Windcrete team has achieved yet another successful publication in an academic journal
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
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/
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
