Norway-based testing and advisory company DNV GL and 13 global partners have joined forces to mutually develop a recommended practice for the coupled analysis of floating offshore wind turbines, it said on Tuesday.
The idea of this joint industry project for standardisation of floating wind turbines is to come up with minimum requirements for the design on new concepts that can help investors’ evaluation. The practice will greatly lower the risk of inadequate analysis and thus result in substantial time savings, DNV GL said.
“The lack of a common agreement on the optimal approach to conduct these analyses [of floating wind turbines] during the different stages of the design process adds potential risk factors and time delays in the project development, but also in the cost evaluation of new conceptual designs. This project provides a unique platform to mutually develop an invaluable Recommended Practice which will be beneficial to each industry stakeholder,” said Luca Vita, project manager and senior engineer at DNV GL – Energy, Renewables Certification.
The companies participating in the project are: Ramboll, Ideol, EDF, MARIN, STX Solutions Europe, Esteyco, NAUTILUS Floating Solutions, Dr.Techn.Olav Olsen, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), GICON, Glosten, Atkins and MARINTEK.
The new practice will build on the experience from the application of the Offshore Standard DNV-OS-J103 “Design of Floating Wind Turbine Structures“, published in 2013, and will contain methods and ways to fulfil the set requirements.
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