Wind Catching with a different approach.
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Designed to optimise energy production for a floating wind power plant
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Designed for easy operations and maintenance
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Elevator based turbine installation – all heavy operations performed on deck
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No need for specialized vessels or cranes
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50 year design life
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Power to X – production and storage
Wind Catcher has an integrated substation
Turret and mooring using well known technology from O&G industry, ocean bottom impact reduced through high unit production. Integrated substation in “mother vessel”, connecting all units and export to land.
Radically reducing LCOE for floating wind
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Delivers electricity at Grid Parity now
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Significant scaleability for future reductions
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One Wind Catching unit produces enough electricity for 80.000 European households
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Five Wind Catching units can produce the same amount of electricity as 25 conventional turbines
Energy scales exponentially with wind speed. Conventional turbines limits energy output above 11-12 m/s by pitching the blades.
Utilizing the full energy in higher wind speeds and the multirotor effect, the Windcatcher generate 2.5x more annual energy per swept area than a conventional turbine.
Having double the swept area of a conventional 15 MW wind turbine, one Windcatching unit will generate 5x the annual energy production.
June 2021
WIND CATCHING