A new kind of wind turbine for the floating wind energy market.
Seawind has made an offshore wind energy system that includes a wind turbine and a base, as well as a way to install the system at a low cost. Seawind doesn’t put these systems together at sea, where expensive crane ships or jackups are used to do it now. The Seawind systems are put together at a pier or a dry dock and then brought to the place where they will be put in place. When it comes to systems that float, installation just means anchoring. When installing a bottom-fixed system, you lower the whole thing to the seabed and turn on the suction buckets. Installation time is cut down by a lot, and whole systems can be kept in protected waters and put in place when the weather is calm. The time it takes to build a full offshore wind farm (500 MW or more) is cut down to less than a year. The foundations are made of UHPC, and the wind farm will last more than 50 years. Because of this, the system can run for a long time with low costs, just like big hydropower plants.
Positive facts about Seawind Ocean Technology
Avoid 99.4% of CO2 compared to a coal plant
Avoid 98.9% of CO2 compared to Combined Cycle Gas Turbine plant
Allows to de-couple the rotor from the shaft enabling simpler wind turbine control
Lower fatigue compared to the conventional 3-bladed technology
Produce green electricity at the same cost or lower than fossil fuel power plants
Produce green hydrogen at competitive cost with diesel fuel for transportation
Seawind Ocean Technology website : https://seawindtechnology.com/
