DNV kicks off Joint Industry Project for floating wind substations
By:
Tom Russell
01/06/2022
DNV
Together with 30 industry
partners, DNV has initiated its latest Joint Industry Project (JIP) which
aims to enhance technology development for floating offshore wind substations.
The JIP has a particular focus on 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
enabling scaling of floating offshore wind with an acceptable level of
commercial, technical, health, safety and environmental risks.
The DNV-ST-0145 standard provides the technical requirements for the certification
of electrical offshore substations. 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 results
of this JIP will be used to update the standard making it applicable for
floating offshore substations.
The following industry stakeholders have joined as partners: ABB, Aibel,
Aker Solutions, Atlantic offshore energy, BP
Burns & McDonnell, EDF, Elia Group, Eolfi/Shell, Equinor, Falck Renewables,
GE Renewable Energy, Gicon, Hitachi Energy, IV One & Nevesbu, Mitsubishi
Electric, Northland Power, Oil states industries, Ørsted, Prysmian, RWE,
Saipem, Siemens Energy, SSE Renewables, Technip Energies, TechnipFMC, Terna
Plus Srl., Total Energies, Wood plc, Worley.
