Eolink winner of the CORIMER 2022 Awards for a project of 6.2 million euros !

A giant leap towards a 20MW floating wind turbine

October 8th, 2022

In the context of the Call for Expressions of Interest CORIMER 2022, EOLINK and its partners – EVERAXIS INDUSTRIES, France Énergies Marines, IFREMER, Université Gustave Eiffel, WINDGLAZ – have been designated winners of the call for projects “Technological bricks and pre-industrial demonstrators” initiated by ADEME in February 2022 (“AAP DEMO TASE”). 

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The HT-20MW project is supported by the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique and led by EOLINK. The project is about the engineering, manufacturing, demonstration and certification of a high-voltage (66 kV) watertight rotating mechanical and electrical connection fully immersed under 30 meters and maintenance-free for 10 years.The budget is 6.2 million euros and the project will start in early 2023 for a 3-year period.

HT-20MW is the first program of its kind to integrate an electrical collector manufacturer, EVERAXIS INDUSRIES. This is a real asset that will enable the development of a solution suitable for floating wind turbines to ensure the export of electricity produced by the turbine.

The demonstration will be applied to a 20 MW floating wind turbine developed according to the EOLINK pyramidal concept and lab tank tests will be carried out in IFREMER’s facilities at its #Brest site. 

FRANCE ÉNERGIES MARINES will identify the failure modes of the dynamic electrical cables and propose a suitable in-service monitoring solution. The robustness of the latter will then be tested experimentally on specific aspects.

UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL is in charge of the design and execution of the fatigue tests of the synthetic anchorage line and the dynamic cables.

WINDGLAZ focuses on the definition of the global numerical model of the 20 MW wind turbine.