Deep_Water

HiPRwind – EU project
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HiPRwind – EU project
Fraunhofer IWES
Programme Framework Programme 7
Budget
Period 2010-2015
Origin
€19.8m (EU support: €11m)
Europe
The HiPRwind project is creating and testing novel,
cost effective approaches to deepwater offshore wind
energy developments. In order to gain real sea experience
and data, a fully functional floating megawattscale
wind turbine will be deployed at an ocean test
site off the coast of Spain and used as an experimentation
platform. This installation is approximately on a
1:10 scale of the future commercial floating wind systems
for deep offshore.
As the world‘s first large scale, shared access real
sea research and test facility, HiPRwind will facilitate
the study of new floater designs, installation methods,
control engineering solutions and grid integration
aspects of deep water wind. R&D includes high
reliability power electronic components, new concepts
for large rotors, control systems, condition and
structural health monitoring. Built in active control
features will reduce dynamic loads on the floater to
save weight and cost compared to existing designs.
R&D results will be shared with the offshore wind
technology community.
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