Innovative circular materials and design methods for offshore Wind Farms of the future

MADE4WIND aims to develop and test innovative components’ concepts for a 15MW offshore Floating Wind Turbine (FWT) consisting of new designs and manufacturing techniques for blades, substructure, and drivetrain

MADE4WIND, THE AMBITION

MADE4WIND plans to develop and validate several innovations to design, manufacture and operate FWT components, capable of improving the viability, lifetime and sustainability of offshore wind energy the viability, lifetime and sustainability of offshore wind energy installed in deep waters, thus facilitating the mass deployment of offshore wind energy while minimising the environmental impact.
The new technologies are capable of improving the viability, lifetime and sustainability of offshore wind energy, while minimising capital and operational costs, which drastically reduces the total cost of ownership of offshore wind energy.

KNOW THE PROJECT

Technical objectives to address the most relevant TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES

OBJETIVES INFO

Circular and efficient design and manufacturing of large-scale lightweight WT blades

Advanced and cost-effective materials and optimized designs for TLP type floating support structure

Innovative compact, lightweighted and more reliable drivetrain design

Improved modelling framework for wind turbine and wind farms

Advanced testing and validation framework for wind turbine components

Environmental impact minimization

High economic impact

Societal benefits maximization

High exploitability

11

PARTNERS

5

COUNTRIES

€6M

TOTAL BUDGET

48

MONTHS

CONCEPTS AND MODELS ON WHICH THE PROJECT IS BASED: THE 4 PILLARS

Lightweight, recyclable, and easy to manufacture WT blades

Lightweighted, circular and long-lasting solutions of floating WT structure

Compact and more reliable WT drivetrain

Development of the intelligent predictive computational modelling tools

KNOW THE 4 PILLARS

MADE4WIND aims to research, develop, and test a set of innovative components that will lay the basis for next generation offshore WT floating solutions taking advantage of the existing expertise in offshore substructures (ACCIONA), materials for lightweight and (re)use of components (AAU, SINTEF, FIBERTEX, HYDRO), and huge potential of improved WT power generation and maintenance strategies (ING, NTNU), while improving economic, environmental, social and resource sustainability constrains (IFEU), able to unlock the massive deployment of >15M FWT (SGRE) in any kind of offshore scenario. For this purpose, MADE4WIND proposes to develop a few, major innovations in the design and manufacturing of large offshore FWT and WFs.

The concept underpinning MADE4WIND is laying on the three pillars (which are the selected components) and the cross-cutting pilar (linked to simulation tools), which include the following methodological concepts: