Together with 30 industry partners, DNV has started its latest joint industry project (JIP) to enhance technology development for floating offshore wind substations.
The project pays particular attention to how export cables and topside equipment tolerate movements of a floating substructure.
The objective is to align industry best-practice allowing for an accelerated technology development and to close gaps in available substation standards.
This would enable the scaling of floating offshore wind with an acceptable level of commercial, technical, health, safety and environmental risks.
Industry stakeholders who have joined as partners include Orsted, Siemens Gamesa, EDF, GE Renewable Energy, RWE and SSE Renewables.
DNV said it continuously works together with the industry to develop up to date standards and recommended practices tailored to the demands of the advancing renewables market.
One of the most-widely used documents is the DNV-ST-0145 standard which provides the technical requirements for the certification of electrical offshore substations, it added.
For its latest update more than 500 industry comments were reflected in this standard which is of increased importance as a growing number of projects pursue new concepts, the company said.
The results of this JIP will be used to update the standard making it applicable for floating offshore substations.