Floatable offshore wind turbine
AssigneeRWE Renewables GmbH
InventorJörn Runge
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Abstract
The application relates to a floatable offshore wind turbine with at least one floatable foundation. The floatable foundation includes at least one floating body. The floatable offshore wind turbine includes at least one anchoring arrangement configured to fix the offshore wind turbine to an underwater ground while the offshore wind turbine is in its anchoring state. Further, the floatable offshore wind turbine includes at least one height adjustment device configured to change the vertical distance of the floatable foundation to an underwater ground surface of the underwater ground and/or to a water surface during the anchoring state based on at least one specific meteorological environmental parameter of the offshore wind turbine.
Claims10
An offshore wind farm, comprising:
- a plurality of offshore wind turbines, wherein each floatable offshore wind turbine comprises:
- at least one floatable foundation comprising at least one floating body, and
- at least one anchoring arrangement configured to fix the offshore wind turbine to an underwater ground in an anchoring state of the offshore wind turbine,
- at least one height adjustment device configured to change the vertical distance of the floatable foundation to an underwater ground surface of the underwater ground and/or to a water surface during the anchoring state based on at least one specific meteorological environmental parameter of the offshore wind turbine,
- wherein the offshore wind farm further comprises:
- at least one height control apparatus configured to control at least one first height adjustment device of an offshore wind turbine with a height set point for causing a change in a vertical distance of a floatable foundation of the offshore wind turbine to an underwater ground surface of the underwater ground and/or to a water surface in accordance with the height set point, wherein the height set point depends at least on the at least one environmental meteorological condition of the offshore wind turbine,
- wherein
- the height set point additionally depends on the position of a first offshore wind turbine in relation to at least one further offshore wind turbine of the offshore wind farm, and
- the height adjustment device comprises at least one weight arrangement connected to the floatable foundation, wherein the weight arrangement is changeable between at least a state lowered on the underwater ground surface and a state lifted from the underwater ground surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.