EDP has officially completed by the phase of the project Windfloat tests. The wind turbine based on a floating platform that has been in business for five years off the Povoa de Varzim will be disconnected and towed to the port this summer. In its place, EDP Renováveis will install a new turbine designed to test other wind technology offshore , the Demogravi3, an investment of EUR 27 million to be funded by Horizon 2020, the European Commission.
in the case of Windfloat, the consortium led by EDP plans to that the next phase of the project, the pre-commercial phase (which aims to test the economic viability), will now take place off of Viana do Castelo, which considers that there is better wind resource. This is where EDP and its partners Repsol, Engie, Mitsubishi and Chiyoda want to install a wind farm with three turbines of 8.3 megawatts (MW) each, using this floating technology developed by PrinciplePower.
project Windfloat Atlantic, with a cost of around 100 million euros, has already secured EU support 30 million, and 19 million of the Portuguese Carbon Fund (of which one million have been delivered to the consortium last year).
Still, the advance of the park is pending government authorization, after the criticisms that have been raised by the regulator of the energy sector, ERSE, the investments exceeding EUR 100 million provided to connect the wind farm to the grid electrotransport. Distribution EDP and REN set up a working group to meet with the Directorate General for Energy and Geology (DGEG) and ERSE connection of alternatives that have less impact on electricity tariffs.
As for the prototype the Windfloat now will be decommissioned, the five years of activity “proved the reliability of the technology solution in adverse weather conditions, having withstood waves over 17 meters and winds exceeding 60 knots,” said EDP, in a statement this farm -feira.
the Windfloat (which also had shareholders are venture capital Portugal Ventures and metallurgical A. Silva Matos) generated and injected into the national grid more than 17 GWh, “demonstrating high levels of availability “. This technology is particularly suitable for medium areas and great depth and, according to the EDP, because it is a floating platform, has lower costs than a fixed platform and lower environmental impact.
Windfloat that will be disconnected from the network cable and mooring lines and towed to the port, where it will be subject to a final inspection, “is the most-successful project R & D in the renewable area offshore Portugal, “said the administrator of EDP Innovation Luis Manuel, said in the statement. The project places “the country and the partners involved in global leadership of floating offshore wind technology,” said the same official.
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