New Tests for Floating GICON® SOF

Project partners are awarded the funding for further tests in autumn 2018, in which the transport and installation processes of the GICON® SOF are to be simulated.

The Endowed Chair of Wind Energy Technology at the University of Rostock (LWET) has been awarded the funding for further tank tests within the framework of the European funding network Marinet2. The funding was awarded in connection with the long-standing cooperation between LWET and GICON in the field of the development of floating substructures for offshore wind turbines. After successfully passing wind and wave tests simulating an operational GICON® SOF in October 2017, the TLP's full-scale transport and installation processes are now to be simulated and utilized in targeted further development of the... ... More: Official Press Release GICON

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GICON, foundation, floater, test, installation, offshore, wind turbine