Competitive Renewable Energy Platforms Based on Shipbuilding Methods

Floating Power Plant (FPP) are a Danish company who develop a novel floating wind concept, with the foundation constructed using flat panels instead of cylindrical structures. Whilst this enables a fast-commercial roll-out due to the lack of competition for manufacturing facilities, a large contingency presently needs to be included in the design as hydrodynamic phenomena occur that are not well represented by industry-standard simulation tools. FPP have already taken the concept from the original idea of a Danish inventor, through a scaled offshore prototype in Danish waters to a multi-MW demonstrator (to be deployed in a parallel co-funded EU project).
This project will solve the final challenge for FPP, taking the technology from the multi-MW demonstrator stage to a cost-competitive mass-produced concept. The output will be three large demonstration activities and six innovations, including a commercially-ready simulation tool and two fully optimised commercial designs, WindFlex (a floating wind turbine with integrated hydrogen energy storage) and WindWaveFlex (a floating wind turbine with integrated wave energy converters and hydrogen energy storage).