Aker Options has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with the Marine Power Check Centre (METCentre) in Norway to pilot new subsea energy system know-how which has the potential to cut back prices and complexity of offshore wind farms.
The mission will see Aker Options present new energy transmission know-how, Subsea Collector, for the METCentre’s offshore wind check space which at the moment consists of two floating offshore wind generators, situated 10km off the southwestern coast of Karmøy, Norway.
The check space will increase to seven floating offshore wind generators from 2026.
Subsea Collector supplies an alternate answer to attach a number of wind generators electrically in a star configuration as a substitute of the standard daisy chain sample, permitting for extra flexibility in offshore wind farm structure and development.
The design additionally permits for lowered cable size per turbine and park, in addition to much less vessel time and set up prices. Preliminary findings assist complete price financial savings on a 1 GW floating wind farm of as much as 10%, in line with Aker Options.
The primary components of the Subsea Collector is a 66kV moist mate connection system supplied by Benestad and subsea switchgear with supervisory management and information acquisition by subsea energy and automation alliance companion, ABB.
Set up might be carried out by Windstaller Alliance, an alliance between Aker Options, DeepOcean and Solstad Offshore. Aker Options will even present the static export cable to shore.
“Combining Aker Options’ huge subsea expertise with our companion’s confirmed management and connection techniques, we goal to unravel challenges at present going through the offshore wind sector. We hope this mission will end in a discipline confirmed system that may profit the trade for a few years to come back,” stated Jo Kjetil Krabbe, govt vp of Energy Options at Aker Options.
“This pioneering mission will contribute to shaping the infrastructure in future massive scale floating wind parks. The know-how is underneath improvement, and the mission demonstrates how Norwegian subsea experience from the oil and fuel trade drives innovation ahead inside floating offshore wind on a world scale,” added CEO of METCentre and Norwegian Offshore Wind, Arvid Nesse.
