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Title: New England Aqua Ventus I: 100% Hull Design (Final Technical Report)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1974553· OSTI ID:1974553
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  1. Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME (United States)
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This report serves as the final technical report for the US Department of Energy (DOE) award DE-EE0006713 (Award 6713). The project is titled “New England Aqua Ventus I Offshore Wind Advanced Technology Demonstration Project 100% Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED)”. The New England Aqua Ventus I (NEAV) project demonstrates a unique prestressed concrete semi-submersible floating hull technology, called VolturnUS. The technology is applicable to harness nearly 60% of the US offshore wind resource within 50 miles of the coast. The hull will be demonstrated at full-scale with a commercial scale wind turbine connected to the grid in the Northeast US off Monhegan Island, Maine for 20 years.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
EE0006713
OSTI ID:
1974553
Report Number(s):
DOE-UMAINE-0006713
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

Methodology for optimizing composite towers for use on floating wind turbines journal May 2017
1:52 Scale Testing of the First US Commercial Scale Floating Wind Turbine, VolturnUS: Testing Overview and the Evolution of Scale Model Testing Methods conference September 2017
Experimental Verification of ABS Concrete Design Methodology Applied to the Design of the First Commercial Scale Floating Offshore Wind Turbine in the United States conference June 2017
Development of a New Federally Funded Wind/Wave/Towing Basin to Support the Offshore Renewable Energy Industry conference October 2017
Validation of the first LiDAR wind resource assessment buoy system offshore the Northeast United States journal July 2019
Advances in Model Scale Testing of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Utilizing the W2 Wind/Wave Basin conference May 2016
Validation of Global Performance Numerical Design Tools Used for Design of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines conference May 2015
Resource Occurrence and Productivity in Existing and Proposed Wind Energy Lease Areas on the Northeast US Shelf journal April 2021

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