A poster called “Windcrete concept scalability: from 2MW to commercial stage was presented”. The poster describes the upscaling of the WindCrete platform from a prototype design to commercial units and shows its economic viability with significant reductions of the cost … Read More
BNEF: 237MW of Floating Offshore Wind by 2020.
The world could see as much as 237MW of floating offshore wind capacity installed by 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). Read the complete article here. Source: http://www.offshorewind.biz.
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
Publication on the Camins.cat
In the December issue of Camins.cat there is a large section regarding offshore wind. An overview on the current offshore market is detailed and the advantages of this renewable resource are listed. Together with the milestones achieved internationally in the … Read More
Between the 27th and the 30th of September 2016 Hamburg hosted the exposition of wind power businesses
It has been a great opportunity for visitors and exhibitors to create new contacts and customers relations, while acquiring further information about the nowadays wind market. Windcrete had the opportunity to contribute with a presentation to this event and in … Read More
An article about Windcrete recently published in Ship&Offshore
A new spar-type floating substructure made of concrete for offshore wind turbines could help move wind farms to deeper waters while providing a cost-effective and robust alternative to steel. Called Windcrete, the substructure has been developed by a small group of professors … 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
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
