Transcript Corporate Presentation

The first floating wind turbines
Martin Jakubowski
Technology Architect
Blue H Technologies BV, The Netherlands
Brindisi, Italia
23rd of May 2009
Blue H
Offshore Wind Technology Developer
Proposition
“Offshore
wind
offers
enormous
potential,
with
stronger
more
predictable winds ......... Planning permission can be easier to obtain
than onshore, farms can be built at scales impossible on land, and the
availability of space is almost unlimited if deep waters are mastered.”
- World Economic Forum 2009 – Green Investing
Blue H
Offshore Wind Technology Developer
Proposition
“Offshore
wind
offers
enormous
potential,
with
stronger
more
predictable winds ......... Planning permission can be easier to obtain
than onshore, farms can be built at scales impossible on land, and the
availability of space is almost unlimited if deep waters are mastered.”
- World Economic Forum 2009 – Green Investing
Blue H
Intends to master deep waters with its technology!
Mission Statement
By owning and continually creating innovative
offshore technology, Blue H intends to become the
world’s leading developer of deep water
offshore wind farms dependent on its technology
Blue H Group Technologies Ltd
“Blue H” The Company
• Founded 2004
• Holding Company in UK
• Management based in The Netherlands
• R&D in Italy
• Site Development in Italy, Belgium, France, UK & USA
• Head Count 27
Projections Global Wind Energy
Annual Installations - Growth in Capacity
2008
2020
Total Wind (MW)
27,000
82,000
Offshore Wind (MW)
400
33,000
Offshore Wind (million)
Key Sources:
**
Calculated @ 3 million € / MW
Calculated @ 2.5 million € / MW
€ 82,500**
Example:
5% market size (MW)
1,650
5% market size (million)
€ 4,125
EWEA Pure Power – March 2008
Global Wind Energy Outlook 2008 – Greenpeace and GWEC (derived from IEA)
Emerging Energy Research - Global Offshore Wind Energy Markets and Strategies - March 2008, baseline
*
€ 1,200*
NREL predicts the future
NREL: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy USA
NREL predicts Tension Legged Platforms
for floating wind turbines
NREL: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy USA
2007 SDP Prototype
Primary Purpose:
Test concept, design,
assembly, transportation
installation and
decommissioning methods
Note: Prototype is not designed to be connected to the grid
Legend: L.A.T. Lowest Astronomical Tide
Construction of Prototype – Brindisi
Submerged Deepwater Platform
– nears completion
Prototype – Launching
The unit is in 4 meters of water
Towed Out with 2 simple Tug Boats
Prototype in its final position:
11.5 NM (21.3 kms) from shore - 113 m deep water
Hyperlink to Prototype Video
Construction, launch, transport and
installation of the prototype
Video from file
2007: Blue H acquired Gamma 2-bladed Technology
• Simple, less Expensive
• Easy to Service & Maintain
• Ideal for high speed wind sites
• Full variable speed = max. performance
• Power regulation through yaw control
The First Commercial Unit - FCU
• Upgraded Gamma 60 turbine
on custom steel floating
support structure
• Allocation of major turbine
subsystems below sea level
• Hydraulically adjustable tendons,
for settlement correction only
• Buoyant counterweight with
2000 t of solid ballast
FCU with
floaters for
transport &
installation
Support
structure
in steel with
concrete
ballast
3D view
FCU, getting the dimension: bottom of central body
Layout of 3.5 MW nacelle
The O&M and industrialization strategies of the
3.5 MW unit guide the design concepts
Easy access by a safe
gang-way to all parts of
the nacelle
Patented assembly
method:
Drive-train and generator
mounted on a container
shaped false bed-plate,
assembled at yard on
the real bed-plate
Blue H Intellectual Property
• IP on the Tension Legged Platform (TLP)
• IP on the 2-bladed Turbine for Offshore Use and/or Onshore Use
• IP on integrating the TLP with the Turbine
• Various patents on two-bladed teetering hinge turbine and
design solutions for transport, installation and industrialization
Congressional Letter of Support
Entire Massachusetts Delegation
Blue H Solution is designed to be more Economic
than Current Shallow Water Installations
Blue H:
• does not need to prepare seabed
• does not need to use expensive marine
services equipment – (monopolistic/oligopolistic control
of jack up barges, crane ships, pneumatic hammers for
pounding the foundations into the seabed)
• does not need assemble at sea
• does not have high decommissioning costs
BBC headline above picture to the right:
“Work on Offshore Winds Farms delayed
by late arrival of the jack-up barge”
Source: RMT, Inc.
Hyperlink to Simulation Video - FCU
Blue H’s transport and installation concept
Video from file