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EU support for floating offshore wind

Andreas Uihlein

Joint Research Centre

European Commission

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Marseille, 15-16 March 2017

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2030 Framework for Climate and Energy

• A more competitive, secure and sustainable energy system

• Encourage private investment in new pipelines, electricity

networks, and low-carbon technology

• Costs: do not substantially differ from the price we need to

pay anyway to replace our ageing energy system

• Main financial effect: shift spending away from fuel sources

and towards low-carbon technologies

• Targets for 2030

• 40% cut in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels

• 27% share of renewable energy consumption

• 27% energy savings compared with the business-as-usual

scenario

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Energy Union and Climate

• Priority of the European Commission

• Making energy more secure, affordable and sustainable

• One dimension: research, innovation and competitiveness

• European Strategic Energy Technology Plan

• Develop low-carbon technologies and make them economically viable

• Accelerate uptake of new technologies (reduce costs, increase efficiency)

• Energy funding under Horizon 2020

• Almost EUR 6 billion towards energy projects in the EU's Research and

Innovation Programme Horizon 2020

• Projects aid in creation and improvement of clean energy technologies

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Targets for offshore wind

• SET-Plan – Declaration of Intent: agreed strategic

targets for offshore wind

• 1. Reduce LCoE at FID for fixed offshore to

• less than 10 ct€/kWh by 2020

• less than 7ct€/kWh by 2030

• 2. Develop integrated wind energy systems for deeper

waters (>50m, max. 50 km from shore) with LCoE of

• less than 12 ct€/kWh by 2025

• less than 9 ct€/kWh by 2030

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Floating offshore wind – current status

• Large potential in the European Union: Atlantic Ocean and

Mediterranean Sea (about 4000 GW)

• 2030 EU targets for offshore wind achievable by conventional

fixed-bottom foundations (water depth < 50 m)

• 2050 decarbonisation targets: floating technology needed?

• Technology not yet demonstrated at large scale

• Over 30 different concepts are under development, small

number demonstrated at full scale in offshore environment

• Pilot projects planned in EU, USA, Japan

• About two-thirds of these projects in the EU

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Key technological challenges

Challenges

Co

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ts Reduce platform size

and weight

Optimise mooring & anchoring systems

Develop advanced control systems

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Reduce installation costs

Short term Commercial scale development

Challenges Bottlenecks

Op

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Understand impact of wake effects

Develop cost-effective solutions for floating substations

Develop maintenance strategies

Develop cost-effective solutions for high voltage export cables

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Tailored installation vessels for certain technologies

Availability of large dry dock facilities in ports

Sources: JRC; Floating Offshore Wind: Market and

Technology Review, Carbon Trust, 2015; ETIP Wind

SRIA 2016

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EU support for floating wind

Total EU funding

31 projects

EUR 220 million

Sources: JRC; CORDA. Contract signature

date/Funding awarded

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TRL 6

TRL 5

TRL 3-4

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2025

2009

WindFloat Pilot

PelaStar

AZIMUT

FLOTTEK

EMERGE

FLOAT OFFSHORE

Float SOLUTIONS

WINFLO

TRL 7

Vertifloat

VERTIWIND

SEA REED

OCEAGEN

France

Spain

UK

Portugal

DeepWind

DEMOWFLOAT

INFLOW

FLOATGEN

TELWIND

LIFES 50plus

Vertimed

Windfloat

BALEA

FloCan5

EU

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2010

2011

2012

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2015

2016

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2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2009

WindFloat Pilot

PelaStar

AZIMUT

FLOTTEK

EMERGE

FLOAT OFFSHORE

Float SOLUTIONS

WINFLO

Vertifloat

VERTIWIND

SEA REED

OCEAGEN

France

Spain

UK

Portugal

DeepWind

DEMOWFLOAT

INFLOW

FLOATGEN

TELWIND

LIFES 50plus

Vertimed

Windfloat

BALEA

FloCan5

EU

Vertiwind Vertifloat: Test concept

VERTIWIND: Prototype

Inflow: Optimise prototype

Vertimed: Pre-commercial

demonstration

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2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2009

WindFloat Pilot

PelaStar

AZIMUT

FLOTTEK

EMERGE

FLOAT OFFSHORE

Float SOLUTIONS

WINFLO

Vertifloat

VERTIWIND

SEA REED

OCEAGEN

France

Spain

UK

Portugal

DeepWind

DEMOWFLOAT

INFLOW

FLOATGEN

TELWIND

LIFES 50plus

Vertimed

Windfloat

BALEA

FloCan5

EU

Windfloat WindFloat Pilot: Full scale pilot

DEMOWFLOAT: Full scale

demonstration

Windfloat: Pre-commercial array

demonstration

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NER 300 state of play

• Cornerstone in the EU's

strategic plan to develop

and deploy cost-effective

low carbon technologies

• 4 floating wind projects

• Total funding about

EUR 132 million

Vertimed EUR 34.3 million

France

12/2018

26 MW

Windfloat EUR 30.0 million

Portugal

12/2018

27 MW

BALEA EUR 33.4 million

Spain

06/2020

26 MW

FloCan5 EUR 34.0 million

Spain

06/2020

25 MW

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Innovation and impact on LCoE

Project Main potential innovation

Expected impact

Production costs

Transport costs

Installation costs

O&M costs

Vertimed, Windfloat FloCan5

Demonstrate of semi-submersible concept

BALEA Demonstrate of TLP or semi-submersible concept

FLOATGEN, INFLOW, DEMOWFLOAT

Demonstrate semi-submersible concept

LIFES 50plus

Optimise 2 concepts for 10 MW wind turbines and KPI methodology for floating substructures

TELWIND Test floating substructure for > 10 MW turbines

DeepWind Develop spar-buoy concept

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Way forward – future calls?

• NER 300: Commission suggests to build on the NER 300

experience when setting up an Innovation Fund (450 million

allowances), targeted to innovative RES, CCS/CCU but also to

innovative projects in the energy-intensive industry

• Horizon 2020: Find information at

www.ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020

• Work Programme 2018-2020 is under development

• InnovFin Energy Demo Projects: Eligibility questionnaire

available at EIB:

http://www.eib.org/products/blending/innovfin/products/ene

rgy-demo-projects.htm

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