Study of a Hybrid Renewable Energy Platform: W2Power

Abstract

The trend in our days seems to drive to hybrid renewable offshore platforms. Several European projects have advanced in this sense. One of these hybrid configurations is obtained by combination of wind and wave energy which allows higher production of electric power. W2Power platform combines offshore wind and wave energy in a semi-submersible floating platform. In this work we present a preliminary study of platform W2Power carried by UCA and collaboration with EnerOcean. A first step of the study, is presented, in this first step the platform and the wave converter are separately studied. A model of these components is created in the software SeaFEM and they are calibrated in the software using previous experimental test tank results. Taking into account this preliminary work, a study of a complete fully coupled model of the W2Power including wind and WECs under different control laws [11] platform will be made in future works.