Harnessing the wind's energy is the objective of a new project, which aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions. The EU-funded project, called SUPRAPOWER, is working on a more powerful, reliable and lightweight superconducting offshore wind turbine. The four-year project has the expertise of nine European partners from industry and science under the coordination of Tecnalia in Spain.
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The SUPRAPOWER team believes that current turbines need new solutions to provide better power scalability, weight reduction and reliability. This is because their enormous size and weight drives up the cost of both fixed and floating foundations, as well as operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. Manufacturers have been focusing on ways to reduce the O&M costs of wind turbines for some time.
This is where the team at Tecnalia think they may have the edge by means of superconduction. They see this as the way forward in building an efficient, robust, and compact wind power plant with a 10 MW superconducting generator. This will contribute to substantial savings on energy and raw materials, and extend the service life of the turbine.
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