Naval Energies for development of shelf floating wind turbines uses platform 3DEperience

On February 13, 2019 the Dassault Systèmes company announced that the Naval Energies company uses platform 3DEXPERIENCE for development of shelf floating wind turbines and also for creation of ready-made solutions in the field of conversion of thermal energy of the ocean (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion).

"The sea is a source of renewable energy which can help to satisfy needs of increasing population of the world without loss for the environment. The Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform became our strategic choice for acceleration of development of technological solutions in this sphere. Thanks to a cloud we could start quickly deployment of the platform and we can scale it on all technology chain – from design before production and operation, and all this is as required". Laurent Schneider Maunoury, chief executive officer of Naval Energies

Naval Energies will use the industry solution of Designed for Sea constructed based on platform 3DEXPERIENCE for management of programs of development, design and the analysis of semisubmersible floating platforms and also solutions in the field of conversion of thermal energy of the ocean, the anchor systems of fastening of platforms to a seabed, submarine cables and solutions for connection of platforms to shelf wind power plants. Naval Energies has an opportunity to work in a protect mode with network of the partners, to reuse and exchange the existing know-how and also to reduce development cycles of programs and to minimize expenses.

Among the programs implemented by the company, a pilot project of a floating wind power station of Groix and Belle-Ile within which four 6-megawatt wind turbines on the shelf at the Atlantic coast of France will be installed. They will develop the electric power for 20 thousand households. The project is designed to optimize technologies of floating wind power plants. It precedes full-scale deployment of wind power infrastructure and transition of France to alternative energy sources. The Naval Energies company is a key contractor on production of the semisubmersible floating systems.

Floating wind turbines give the chance to use energy of sea winds in the remote areas which are not visible from the coastline, thanks to the floating construction attached to a seabed using the anchor system controlling its movements. Conversion of thermal energy of the ocean are the process allowing to generate electricity, using a difference of temperatures between a cold water at a depth of the ocean and warm tropical surface waters. Special installations pump over large volumes of cold sea water from depths and also surface sea water for start of a power cycle and electricity generation.