Shallow Water Float Foundations

Benefits

• No offshore lifts
  • Increased safety
  • Lower costs
  • Independent of worlds future lack of WIVs
  • No need for Jones Act – qualified WIWs in US offshore
• Enables access to ultra-shallow waters (3m-9m); typical installation water depth 10-45m
• Scalable to future wind turbine sizes; current design for 15MW
• Environmentally friendly
  • No hammering noise
  • Removable after lifetime; can be recycled (CO₂ issue)
• Quick and cost effective (fabrication friendly design ; various vendors can be used for fabrication; high local content)
• Penetration of the Skirts to seabed improves foundation stability against moments and forces generated by wind, waves, ice, currents

Features

• Wind turbine is assembled on the float foundation onshore in drydock or floating at quayside
• Only tugboats needed during towing to location and positioning when lowered to seabed
• Water depths range from 3m to 45m
• Soft, semisoft and dense seabeds
• Suitable for ice conditions
• Steel structure
  • Recyclable
  • High density-less weight loss than concrete when submerged
  • Corrosion protected
• Reusable installation barges
• DNVGL verified towage and lowering operation

Patent pending

Wind turbine can be assembled on the Float Foundation onshore and towed to location and further lowered to seabed.

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