METCentre tilbyr konsesjoner, infrastuktur og tjenester for testing av flytende energiproduksjon i forhold tilsvarende Nordsjøen.
Testsenteret har foreløpig 2 konsesjoner for flytende havvind som vil bli brukt av TetraSpar Demonstrator og FLAGSHIP.
Testsenteret vil bli utvidet de neste årene for å kunne ta imot flere flytende teknologier.
It's a wrap on our latest international Floating Wind Deep Dive event in Stavanger, Norway! More than 50 delegates joined us for an educational workshop, focused on the technical and environmentalaspects of floating offshore wind, and an offshore visit to the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) to see our TetraSpar Demonstrator in action!
This event enabled these stakeholders to learn about this new innovative technology, with the aim of ensuring a collaborative approach to developing our floating wind projects and a better understanding to inform decision-making. Thank you to all who attended and shared their expertise in floating wind technology and environmental consenting processes!
METCentre Joins Forces with European Demonstration Test Sites for Floating Offshore Wind 💪
The High Power Test Sites (HiPoTeSis) initiative is a cooperative platform of five European demonstration test sites: BiMEP Biscay Marine Energy Platform (Spain), Companhia da Energia Oceânica (Portugal), Fondation OPEN-C (France), METCentre (Norway), and Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (PLOCAN) (Spain).
Our objective is to advocate for the interests of offshore demonstration test sites in Europe, ensuring these sites can continue to drive innovation and development in the floating offshore wind sector.
The test centres attended ETIPWind’s workshop in Brussels aimed to shape its messages to the newly elected EU policymakers, including the European Commission and European Parliament. ETIPWind is a platform for European wind energy stakeholders to identify R&D&I priorities and promote breakthrough innovations to EU policymakers. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in designing offshore wind calls in Horizon Europe.
Test sites and demonstration projects are essential for de-risking technologies, optimising business models, and gaining social acceptance. They enable the safe and efficient scaling of new technologies, ensuring that innovations can be effectively integrated into the market.
- We represent 100% of the installed floating offshore wind capacity for high TRL demonstration projects in Europe. Our expertise is invaluable for the EU in designing effective, efficient, and targeted regulations and programs for the industry, said Arvid Nesse, CEO of METCentre and Norwegian Offshore Wind.
Izan Le Crom - Carlos Pinho - Yago Torre-Enciso Enciso - Bertrand Dumas - Jose Joaquin Hernandez Brito - Marco Alves - Laura Zubiate - Einar Tollaksvik - Cecilia Girard-Vika - Tor Arne Johnsen
New funding opportunity for potential projects at the METCentre: Enova launches support scheme for floating wind!
In this support program, there is room for support for commercial floating offshore wind projects with a need of funding up to 175 million euros.
The program supports projects aimed at maturing technology and solutions in the final stages of development, as well as testing and verifying the interaction and performance of systems that integrate multiple technologies and solutions.
-There is a pressing need for new technology, and METCentre is the perfect site for testing and development. This new funding opportunity is great news for new test projects, says our manager Arvid NesseEnova SF - Cecilia Girard-Vika - Monica Bårdsen - Norwegian Offshore Wind
Numbers dont lie - the METCentre offers challenging North Sea conditions, proven by updated numbers received from the #TetraSpar Demonstrator project
❗ So far this year, the capacity factor has been measured to almost 63%, while for February it was measured to more than 70% ❗
Such numbers highlight the importance of developing floating offshore wind, as capturing the great wind resources offshore will be a strong contribution to solving the energy challenge.
The TetraSpar Demonstrator has been operating at METCentre since late 2021. With its 3.6MW Siemens turbine, the project has so far contributed with more than 37 GWh of green energy.
Arvid Nesse - Cecilia Girard-Vika - Hanne Tvedt - Monica Bårdsen - Henrik Stiesdal - Stiesdal - TEPCO - Shell - RWE
We are excited to share for the first time some performance updates on our TetraSpar Demonstrator floating offshore wind project.
Since its commissioning in late 2021, the TetraSpar Demonstrator has been operational at METCentre, Norway, delivering green energy, gathering data, validating numerical models, supporting R&D projects, and serving as a living laboratory for the development of floating wind technology.
To date, the TetraSpar Demonstrator has generated more than 37 GWh of green energy. The 3.6 MW Siemens Gamesa turbine and very high mean wind speeds at the MetCentre site combined to yield a capacity factor of 54%. In its first two years of operation, the availability was recorded at 97.0% and 98.3%, respectively. For 2024, the availability has increased to 99.5% with a capacity factor of almost 63%.
The TetraSpar design is entirely passive, enabling robust performance even under challenging sea state conditions. During the “Ingumm” storm from January 31 to February 2, wind speeds reached up to 38 m/s, with wave heights exceeding 13 meters. The average capacity factor through February 2024 was over 70%.
The TetraSpar floating foundation is a project owned by TEPCO, Shell, RWE, and Stiesdal Offshore. The foundation is based on Stiesdal Offshore's Tetra technology, which is a building-block industrialized floating foundation arrangement.
At its commissioning, TetraSpar marked a string of significant milestones, including:
- Completion of the factory manufacturing of the components for the world’s first industrially manufactured floating offshore foundation.
- Fast assembly of the modules at the quayside, requiring no welding and no special port facilities.
- Launch using a semisubmersible barge, followed by rapid turbine installation using an ordinary onshore crane.
- Safe deployment of the keel when towed to a location of sufficient depth, making the TetraSpar Demonstrator the world’s first spar foundation capable of deployment from an ordinary, shallow-water port.
Thirty months into its operational life, TetraSpar is validating #FloatingWind as a critical component of the future global energy mix. Deploying floating wind turbines in deeper waters, beyond the reach of traditional bottom-fixed #OffshoreWind, opens vast new areas for renewable energy development and significantly increases the potential for offshore wind power.
Enjoy the footage from the test site at Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre):
