Floating Wind Technical Challenges

Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler, SUNY Maritime College, 6 Pennyfield Avenue, Bronx, NY 10465

Online via Zoom

Join the IMarEST Eastern USA Branch for a museum tour and dinner, followed by a technical presentation titled 'Floating Wind Technical Challenges'.

How to attend

Guests are welcome to join in-person for the full schedule of events, and online attendance is also available for the technical presentation.

To register attendance for either, please contact Bradley Golden, Chairman & Honorary Secretary by Sunday, March 24, 2024. Prospective new members interested in joining the Institute are invited to attend a technical meeting as a guest of the Eastern USA Branch of the IMarEST.

About the Presentation

The development of floating wind farms provides a number of challenges that are quite new to the maritime industry. Key challenges relate to the type of loads experienced by the floaters supporting the wind turbine generators (WTGs) and their extremely large vertical dimensions. Introducing radical new technology may aid a desirable solution but practical aspects such as availability and scalability should be considered. ECO TLP® will be one solution discussed within this framework for a full overview of the floater technology landscape.

About the Speakers

Jelte Kymmell is the founder of MOCEAN Offshore BV, where he has been involved in a wide range of offshore innovation projects and co-founder of MO4, software for offshore operational forecasting and analytics. Fascinated by offshore innovations since his graduation from TU Delft, he has been involved in the ECO TLP® design since 2014, running both model basin tests at MARIN for the 6-8MW WTGs in 2014 and then the 15-23MW WTGs in 2023.

Nicole Johnson Murphy is CEO and co-founder of ECO TLP Inc. Nicole has worked in renewable energy in offshore, C&I solar and utility battery storage for over twelve years. Raised in a fourth-generation marine industry family, she has been involved with the ECO TLP® since it's design inception and patent process began with F.M. Johnson, NA/ME in 2011. Prior to renewables, Nicole worked as an architectural designer in the Netherlands and New York City and then moved into technology, re-engineering client processes to implement early AI that would optimize production across fifteen divisions of GE Power & GE Industrial, among other Fortune 500 companies.