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    PrinciplePowerWindFloatBrochure PDF

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    The WindFloat is a floating support structure for offshore wind turbines that improves stability and motion performance. It uses heave plates and a simple, economic design that dampens wave and turbine motion, allowing turbines to be sited in deep waters. The WindFloat can be fully assembled onshore and wet-towed to site, providing significant cost savings over traditional foundations. It has been demonstrated through projects in Portugal.

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    The WindFloat is a floating support structure for offshore wind turbines that improves stability and motion performance. It uses heave plates and a simple, economic design that dampens wave and turbine motion, allowing turbines to be sited in deep waters. The WindFloat can be fully assembled onshore and wet-towed to site, providing significant cost savings over traditional foundations. It has been demonstrated through projects in Portugal.

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    The WindFloat is a floating support structure for offshore wind turbines that improves stability and motion performance. It uses heave plates and a simple, economic design that dampens wave and turbine motion, allowing turbines to be sited in deep waters. The WindFloat can be fully assembled onshore and wet-towed to site, providing significant cost savings over traditional foundations. It has been demonstrated through projects in Portugal.

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    PrinciplePowerWindFloatBrochure PDF

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    Geraldo Samuel Marques Almeida
    The WindFloat is a floating support structure for offshore wind turbines that improves stability and motion performance. It uses heave plates and a simple, economic design that dampens wave and turbine motion, allowing turbines to be sited in deep waters. The WindFloat can be fully assembled onshore and wet-towed to site, providing significant cost savings over traditional foundations. It has been demonstrated through projects in Portugal.

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    Stability Performance

    The WindFloat is fitted with patented water


    entrapment (heave) plates at the base of
    Overview
    Principle Power targets the offshore wind sector
    by eliminating current deepwater limitations
    PRINCIPLE
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    each column. The plates improve the motion with an innovative solution. WindFloat is a
    performance of the system significantly due floating support structure for offshore wind
    to damping and entrained water effects. This turbines with a simple, economic and patented
    stability performance allows for the use of design.
    existing commercial wind turbine technology.
    The innovative features of the WindFloat dampen
    Design and Size wave and turbine induced motion, enabling wind
    The design of the WindFloat enables the structure turbines to be sited in previously inaccessible
    to be fully assembled onshore and towed to its locations where water depth exceeds 50m and
    final location. All fabrication and qualification wind resources are superior. Further, economic
    is completed at quayside in a controlled efficiency is maximized by eliminating the need
    environment. Deployment and operation cost for offshore heavylift operations during final
    savings are significant when compared with assembly, deployment, and commissioning.
    monopile/jacket support structures. A 2MW Multiple projects are in development for the
    WindFloat prototype was wet-towed 400km, installation of commercial Windfloat units in
    fully-comissioned, to final installation site in both European and US offshore wind farms.
    October 2011 offshore of Aguçadoura, Portugal.

    Advantages
    There are three distinct advantages to the
    WindFloat foundation: first, its static and
    dynamic stability provides sufficiently low
    pitch performance enabling use of commercial
    offshore wind turbines; second, its design and
    size allow for onshore assembly; third, its shallow
    draft allows for depth independent siting and wet
    tow (fully assembled and commissioned) to sites
    not visible from shore and that are responsive to
    stakholder input.
    Mooring System
    The mooring system employs conventional
    components such as chain and polyester lines PRINCIPLE POWER | phone +1 206 905 1139

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    to minimize cost and complexity. Through the [email protected] | www.principlepowerinc.com
    use of pre-laid drag embedded anchors, site
    preparation and impact is minimized.
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