GICON® - SOF - Image Movie (Engl. subtitle)

GICON® SOF
The engineering response to concerns about
the future of the offshore wind industry .
The construction of offshore wind turbines is associated with major technical, ecological and financial challenges. Minimizing these costs and risks is of
primary importance for the offshore wind industry.
An additional existential issue within the industry is the development of sites with greater water depths and high wind yields, since the available surface area in shallow water will eventually become exhausted.
With its SOF (swimming offshore foundation), GICON has developed a floating platform for offshore wind turbines which can be used at water depths between 18 and 500 meters and thus in areas with high and uniform wind speeds. This foundation is completely produced on land, including the towing of turbines to the site where the entire structure is installed without additional installation ships. This enables an inexpensive installation with levelized cost of energy well below 10 Euro cent/kWh. The installation is also associated with low environmental impacts, since noise-intensive work, for example, can be avoided or greatly reduced.
LINKS:
www.gicon-sof.de
www.gicon.de
Source Animations/Pictures SOF: BALTIC Taucherei- und Bergungsbetrieb Rostock GmbH