EREBUS Floating Wind FEED Study

The EREBUS project will feature between seven and ten 12MW offshore wind turbines on WindFloat® floating platforms located approximately 44 km southwest of the Pembrokeshire coastline in the Celtic Sea.

Lanza Engineers supported Principle Power during the Concept and FEED phases of the Erebus Project with the following engineering work:

• Grounding Analysis of the Floating Platform — a structural assessment of the primary structure of the WindFloat® floating platform during specific conditions.
• Dropped object simulation — this analysis simulates the impact of falling objects onto deck structures. Deck structure capacity to withstand and dissipate the energy from a dropped object is assessed.

All structural analyses were performed in ANSYS.