Delta Wind Partners' (DWP) HIPER digital sensor box, designed for floater foundations, has been named among the winners of the TetraSpar floating offshore wind demonstrator project's innovation challenge. This global initiative, spearheaded by Stiesdal, Shell, RWE, and Tepco, seeks to identify and expedite the development of innovative solutions supporting the growth of floating offshore wind technology.
HIPER, an acronym for heave, inclination, position, elevation, and roll, represents a digital sensor box facilitating continuous verification, live monitoring, and data storage of a floating wind structure's movements, according to DWP. This technology enables more precise decision-making, enhancing the safety and performance of floating turbines throughout integration, towing, and operation.
Selected from a pool of 40 applicants, DWP, along with seven other winning companies, will have the opportunity to install and test its HIPER solution on the TetraSpar Demonstrator Project.
Nikolaj H. N. Merring, Senior Technical Project Manager at Delta Wind Partners, expressed the significance of testing HIPER on an operational floating foundation. He stated, “The possibility of testing HIPER on a floating foundation in operation is a great opportunity to verify its design and performance. We will validate our measurements by comparing them to output from sensors already installed on the foundation. This way, we can ensure that HIPER delivers reliable, precise, and valuable output to the project owners.”
The TetraSpar Demonstrator Project stands as the world's inaugural full-scale demonstration of an industrialized offshore floating wind foundation, utilizing a tetrahedral structure assembled from tubular steel components. The project includes a 3.6MW turbine.
Delta Wind Partners, recently acquired by renewable energy consultancy OWC, is part of the Oslo-listed global energy and marine consultancy group ABL Group ASA.
