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Hexicon floating wind turbine concept with two 5MW wind turbines on one floater


MARIN’s latest involvement in floating wind energy


A multi-turbine, floating concept will be tested in the offshore basin for the first time this year as floating wind energy takes the next step.


Additionally, MARIN is working on a vertical axis wind turbine model. Erik-Jan de Ridder & Rene Lindeboom, e.d.ridder@marin.nl


M 10 report


ARIN has been involved in floating wind turbines right from the start of their development.


The first floating project MARIN participated in was ‘Drijfwind’ in 2003, but this was limited to testing only the floater, without the wind turbine, to determine the global floater response in waves and current.


A few years later in 2011 MARIN performed scale model tests for three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), in a project led by the University of Maine. For these unique model tests MARIN and the DeepCwind Consortium worked closely together to develop a new, high quality wind generation machine in the


MARIN Offshore Basin. This wind generation machine also gave the opportunity to model the wind turbine during model scale tests.


This innovative approach now made it pos- sible to model the complex motions and loads of the rotating wind turbine on a moving platform in both wind and waves. To simu-


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