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Offshore floating Hywind wind turbines moored in the North Sea(07/04/2011)
Until now offshore wind turbines have had to be firmly rooted on the seabed with large and costly subsea structures. Things are changing, however, with the advent of Statoil’s innovative new offshore floating Hywind wind turbine, the first of which is now successfully moored in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast. The Hywind turbine incorporates Trelleborg’s syntactic foam (hollow glass microspheres embedded in a binder) buoyancy technology. To reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, governm... [more]
Technip tests Vertiwind prototype of a vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine(27/01/2011)
Technip in association with Nénuphar, Converteam and EDF Energies nouvelles has launched the Vertiwind project to test a pre-industrial prototype of a vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine. The partners of the project are Seal Engineering, ISITV, IFP Energies nouvelles, Arts et Métiers, Bureau Veritas, Oceanide. Free of the constraints related to the foundations of fixed wind turbines, the Vertiwind concept opens new perspectives for wind farms offshore numerous countries notably in th... [more]
Hywind floating wind turbine inaugurated(16/09/2009)
Technip has joined StatoilHydro in celebrating the inauguration of the Hywind demonstration wind turbine, which took place last week in Karmøy, Norway. Located 10 kilometers offshore Karmøy, Hywind is the first full-scale floating wind turbine and has a capacity of 2.3 MW. Following the award of the turnkey contract for the substructure of the wind turbine in May 2008, Technip’s operating center in Oslo, Norway, performed the project management and installation engineering. Detail design and ... [more]
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