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De-risking Floating Wind: Proving Virtual Mooring Sensors on the TetraSpar Demonstrator

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The conversations at this year’s FOWT conference made one thing clear: Risks during operation have to be completely unveiled for an efficient financing and realisation of future floating wind farm. One of the most effective measures to de-risk operation is the implementation of detailed, continuous monitoring. Rather than waiting for periodic ROV inspections that reveal […]

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sowento successfully validates high-accuracy turbulence measurements for floating lidar in NEOWIND project

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sowento Validates Motion Compensation Software for Floating Lidar For the offshore wind industry, accurate Wind Resource Assessment (WRA) is fundamental to project bankability. While floating lidar systems are a cost-effective solution, their inherent motion – especially roll and pitch – can corrupt data, leading to significant errors in turbulence intensity (TI). Inaccurate TI data can

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FOWT Motion Reduction – Results from the Eurostars CROWN project

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This summary presents the project Motion Reduction of a Concrete Reduced-draft spar for the Offshore floating Wind iNdustry (CROWN) of the partners Seaplace, USTUTT and sowento GmbH. sowento was in charge of the motion reduction sub-project. As part of the overall project, Seaplace designed a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) with Reduced Spar Design (RDS)

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Floating wind research

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Floating wind research is one of the key fields at Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE). Frank Lemmer, the head of Floating Wind at sowento, was part of these research activities from the early beginnings. His work on reduced-order modeling, integrated design, and controller design for floating wind turbines was awarded in 2019 by the European Academy of

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The history of lidar-assisted control

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Research and testing of lidar-assisted control started at University of Stuttgart in 2008 and since then experience on advanced control technologies involving processed lidar measurements has been built up. David Schlipf, head of the Lidar Technology at sowento, has played an important role in the evolution and development of lidar in wind energy applications. Through his research and leading

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