{"id":678,"date":"2023-09-04T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/?page_id=678"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:48:52","slug":"about-wheel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/about-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"About Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About Wheel<\/h1><\/div>

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.<\/p>\n

Development and demonstration needed to reach the pursued TRL will be achieved through the design, installation, certification and testing of a fully operative 6MW Pilot unit, which will showcase and demonstrate the breakthrough advantages that the WHEEL technology can deliver to the floating wind industry. It will be installed in a deep-water location in the PLOCAN testing area (Canary Islands, Spain), where it shall be thoroughly monitored along a period sufficient to underpin the commercialization and bankability of the technology.<\/p>\n

The WHEEL project pulls together a Consortium of renowned European companies and research institutions with extensive experience and a spearhead position in the renewables and marine industry. This multidisciplinary team joins forces to complete the full demonstration of such a disruptive technology by integrating complementary expertise fields and capabilities which effectively cover all key areas of floating wind systems in pursuit of the ambitious objectives of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

GENERAL OVERVIEW<\/a><\/h1><\/div>
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WORK PLAN AND RESOURCES<\/a><\/h1><\/div>
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ESTEYCO & CONSORTIUM<\/a><\/h1><\/div>
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\"\"This Project has been funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program with Grant Agreement number 101084409.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-678","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/678\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esteyco.com\/wheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}