DHI, together with DTU Wind Energy and Stiesdal Offshore Technology, recently opened doors to the offshore wave basin at its headquarters in Denmark for all those interested to witness the tests of Henrik Stiesdal’s TetraSpar floating foundation concept.
The event took place on 20 June with more than 100 people visiting the facility to see the latest developments in floating wind being put to the test.
The 1:60 scale model tests are carried out using DTU’s 10MW scale model pitch-controlled wind turbine, and two floater configurations are considered. The floating wind turbine is subjected to wind and wave forcing for a number of operational and survival conditions.
The objectives of the model test campaign are to provide a proof-of-concept of the TetraSpar foundation as well as advance experimental testing and data analysis techniques in this area.
Henrik Stiesdal is a Danish inventor and former Chief Technology Officer at Siemens Wind Power who has worked with wind energy technologies since the later 1970s.