Eolfi and its partners have developed a software tool to design the anchoring and electrical connections of floating wind farms, to optimise the performance and output of subsea connections.
The collaboration, which also involves renewables engineering consultancy Innosea, electrical engineering and numerical simulation consultancy Capsim, software provider AbyssCAD and engineering school Centrale Nantes, has resulted in the STATIONIS software.
The software provides the offshore wind industry with a turnkey solution for defining the optimal mooring design and inter-array cabling of a floating wind farm.
The tool can support decision-making in the development of floating wind farm projects at any stage of the design cycle and for any size and type of wind farm.
“This is a unique all-in-one anchorage and electrical connection design software that provides the ability to design a floating wind power farm from the optimal architectural design of the anchors to the internal electric structure, to delivery at sea.
“It will be hugely beneficial to developers of floating wind farms,” said Hakim Mouslim, managing director of Innosea, part of AqualisBraemar LOC.
The STATIONIS software helps to design and scale the underwater architecture of a floating wind power farm.
It also supports the decision making regarding electrical equipment and anchorage for a specific architectural set-up in order to optimise the performance of the underwater connections, outputting rapid calculations of economic and technical indicators.
“STATIONIS is a one of a kind software, enabling early design considerations for moorings and cabling for floating offshore wind farms”, said Thomas Soulard, Centrale Nantes.