The installation of wind farms on land will be limited by “landscape saturation” before a technical horizon of “penetration” on the electricity grid can be reached. The next step is thus to install wind farms out at sea, sufficiently far from the coast to prevent an impact (25 km). At this distance, except in the North Sea, the majority of sites have a depth of over 50 meters. This means that the wind turbines will not be anchored directly on the seafloor; therefore, constructive solutions based on floating platforms are required. This calls for highly complex technological innovation. These solutions will have to be developed, modeled and tested exhaustively before they can be placed on the market.

IREC has initiated work in this field by developing an offshore deep-sea wind turbine testing plant for wind turbine manufacturers and the wind industry in general to install, test and certify technological solutions appropriate for this type of location and conditions.

• Calculation Models.
• Electrical Power Transmission.
• Safety.
• Electric Wind Turbine Systems.
• Control Systems.
• Connection to the Power Grids.
• Wind Turbine Substructures.
• Wind Measurements