Technologies
Semi-submersible INO platform
Blending ultimate flexibility with efficiency
Our semi-submersible platforms family (INO and INO-C) offers an advantageous and flexible solution, while also providing a highly secured platform for any turbine size.
The technology is adaptable to any site, opening up Floating Offshore Wind power generation to the widest customer market.
Our semi-submersible platforms rely on state-of-the-art offshore construction and installation methodologies and represent by consequence a mature FOW (floating offshore wind) technology.
Specific benefits of Ekwil’s INO and INO-C semi-submersible platforms include:
- Extremely flexible and versatile deployment for any site
- Totally compatible with existing and future turbine technology
- Optimized offshore installation
Float4Wind Tension Leg Platform
Delivering optimal synergy between platform and turbine
Our Tension Leg Platform technology – Float4Wind™ -family offers unique motion performance that closely mimics fixed location parameters. This means existing turbine technologies and control systems can be deployed highly effectively and efficiently, with minimal adaptation required.
The design of our Float4Wind™ Tension Leg Platforms uses components already incorporated in bottom-fixed solutions. This means that components are already industrialized with existing manufacturing capacity and infrastructure, offering shorter execution planning to production timescales.
Specific benefits of Ekwil’s Float4Wind™ platform include:
- Unique motion performance, closely matching fixed locations
- Totally compatible with existing and future turbine technology
- Minimizes environmental impact in terms of total seabed footprint and other sea-based operations e.g. fishing vessels.
Our Solutions
Designed to work better for you. Smart, flexible and competitive by design.
Our solutions are not tied to a single technology or engineering approach offering flexibility and adaptability of Floating Offshore Wind solutions including Tension Leg and Semi-submersible platforms.
Flexible
We offer Floating Offshore Wind solutions tailored to our customers’ needs and ensuring efficient execution planning, seamless integration with local infrastructure, and unmatched scalability for maximum performance in diverse environments.
Smart
Our solutions are all designed to minimise complexity across the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation spectrum.
Competitive
At Ekwil, we adopt a highly optimized model for platform delivery that achieves best value at every stage through streamlined design for standardization, efficient supply chain solutions not compromising quality and safety, and minimizing operational costs.
Combined, these design principles offer our customers the ideal balance of cost, value and energy production.
Case Studies
Provence Grand Large
The first project in the world to use a Tension Leg Platform technology.
Located 17kms off the Port-Saint-Louis-Du-Rhone, near Marseille, Provence Grand Large is the first floating offshore wind pilot farm in France.
Once in operation, the Provence Grand Large wind farm will generate 25MW supplying the energy needs of 45,000 inhabitants through three highly efficient platforms each supporting a 8.4MW turbine.
Power progress and performance in action, Provence Grand Large marks a major advancement in Floating Offshore Wind capability that opens the oceans to generating power at maximum efficiency in the widest range of conditions and environments.
Firefly/Bandibuli Floating Wind Farm Project in South Korea
Bandibuli is one of the most advanced commercial floating offshore wind farm projects in the world, with potential commercial operation date (COD) around 2030.
Operated by Norwegian broad energy company Equinor and located 70 kilometres offshore from the east coast of South Korea, the Bandibuli project will employ Ekwil’s INO semi-submersible floaters.
Bandibuli has a designed generating capacity of approximately 750 MW and will serve the South Korean grid, powering the city of Ulsan and beyond.
A major step forward in the realisation of reliable, efficient, and clean power at commercial scale, Bandibuli can represent a global step-shift in the confidence and conviction nations have in floating offshore wind power generation as a fundamental component of the energy mix today and for the future.