NAUTILUS – Floating Platform for Offshore Wind Energy

CLIMATE, ENERGY AND MOBILITY

NAUTILUS is the next generation substructures for floating offshore 10MW wind turbines at water depths greater than 50m. TECNALIA and SINTEF Ocean carried out a wave tank experimental campaign with two objectives: to characterize the dynamic behavior of NAUTILUS floating offshore wind technology (a TECNALIA spinoff) and to validate the real-time hybrid model tests (ReaTHM®) developed by SINTEF. DTU’s 10 MW reference wind turbine was used for the tests, which is in the range of the latest commercial developments of the wind turbine manufacturers.