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BWEA Offshore Wind ConferenceLondon – 17-18 Apr ‘02

with acknowledgements to the partners in the project

Concerted Action on Offshore Wind Energy in EuropeConcerted Action on Offshore Wind Energy in Europe

Andrew Henderson

Delft University of Technology

Offshore Wind EnergyOffshore Wind Energy

Europe & the WorldEurope & the World

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Contents

• Overview & Prospects

• Offshore Windfarm Technology– Windenergy Technology (the turbines)– Offshore Technology (the support structure)

• National Activities– from Ireland in the West to Poland in the East

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Overview

9 Windfarms Installed Offshore, incl.

• Vindeby, 1991, 11 turbines, 5MW

• Middelgrunden, 2000/1, 20 turbines, 40 MW

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Overview

Installed Offshore• Now ≈ 85 MW• Last year (2001)

= 10 MW

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Overview - 2002

Installed Offshore• Now ≈ 85 MW• Last year (2001)

= 10 MW• This year (2002)

≈ 200 MW ?

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Windfarms 2002 – Samsø, DK

10 2.3MW turbines

Monopile

18-20m on soft soil

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Overview - 2003

Installed Offshore• Now ≈ 85 MW• Last year (2001)

= 10 MW• This year (2002)

≈ 200 MW ?• Next year (2003)

≈ 600 MW ?

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Windfarms 2003 – Rødsand, DK

72 turbines

2.2 MW Bonus

Gravity Base

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Windfarms 2003 – Egmond, NL

• 36 turbines• 2.75 MW NEG-

Micon• Monopile

(probable)• Shell / NUON

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Windfarms 2003 – Borkum-West, DE

• 12 x 5MW turbines (1st phase)

• 1 GW final• 43-50 km• 30m depth• Tripod ?• PROKON-Nord

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Windfarms 2003 – Arklow Bank, EI

• 60 MW (1st phase)

• 520 MW final

• 7 km

• 5-25m depth

• airtricity

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Overview – Total Installed Offshore

Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 Declared

Denmark 50 230 400 600 900

Sweden 23 127 127 127 127

Holland 19 19 130 260 260

Ireland - - 60 120 770

Germany - - 60 60 5,600

UK 4 4 210 800 1,800

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Overview

Installed Offshore

• …

• …

• 2005 ?

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Overview - Elsewhere

• Nantucket, USA, 2005

• Nai Kun, CAN, 2008

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Next Generation Turbines

Manuf. Power Diam Location Proto.

GE Wind 3.6 MW 100m Spain mid ’02

Enercon 4.5MW 112m Magdeburg, DE mid ’02

Vestas 3 MW 90m Friesland, DE May ‘02

NEG Micon

2.75 MW

90 m Orkney & ECN, NL

Mid & Late ‘02

REPower 5 MW 115m - ‘03

DEWind 3.5 MW 90m - ‘03

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Further information

• E-mail A.Henderson@CiTG.TUDelft.nl

• Report available for download at internet site www.offshorewindenergy.org

Main partners: