The overall objective of the WHEEL project is to fully demonstrate and bring to a precommercial Technology Readiness Level (TRL) a revolutionary floating wind technology excellently suited for deep water locations, effective industrialization strategies, breakthrough cost reduction and minimized carbon footprint. This shall enable a radical step forward for LCoE reduction, whilst also addressing scalability, harbour infrastructure suitability and availability, and the sustainability & circularity of floating offshore wind.
The proposal & Main objectives
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Deliver at the same time the key advantages of the two main existing floater concepts.
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Compacity.
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Low-draft.
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Reduced Material Usage and low-carbon.
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Fast mass industrialized production.
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No heavy-lift vessels.
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No Active Ballast System (ABS).
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Slow Motions.
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Novel PDC Controller.
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On site LCM.
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Evolved Mooring.
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Scalability.
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Low-Cost.
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Unprecedented FOWT configuration.
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Rock Anchors.
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Circular Economy and carbon footprint.
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Contribute to enhance societal impact of our research activities.
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Encourage women’s introduction to offshore wind energy sector.
This Project has been funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program with Grant Agreement number 101084409.
