EU supporting Seaworthy wave/wind energy development
July 19, 2023
The European Commission has requested Floating Power Plant to negotiate a grant by the European Commission to support its Seaworthy development at the Plocan test site offshore Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
Courtesy Floating Power Plant
Offshore staff
Courtesy Floating Power Plant
Floating Power Plant (FPP) and TechnipFMC have developed a technology that integrates hydrogen in which the FPP platform is connected to, for example, an oil and gas platform providing renewable power directly. FPP explains on its website that, when there is too much wind and wave, the excess power is turned into hydrogen via electrolysis, stored and then later used to generate power via fuel cells when there is too little wind and wave.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark— The European Commission has requested Floating Power Plant (FPP) to negotiate a grant by the European Commission to support its Seaworthy development at the Plocan test site offshore Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
This is a floating offshore platform that combines wave and wind energy to generate electricity and uses excess power to produce and store hydrogen.
All these capabilities will be tested at the Plocan site.
FPP claims that as its combination of technologies matures, it will be able to deliver large-scale, cost-effective green hydrogen for export product. It is seeking to advance Seaworthy from Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL6) to TRL8 via the construction, testing and operation of a commercial-scale demonstration platform.
This will likely contain a 4.3-MW wind turbine, 0.8-MW wave energy converters, and electrolyzers with hydrogen storage and a fuel cell. The grant can help speed up deployment of the technology, the company added.
