Control, Supervision, AI
Wind energy has appeal: it is clean, renewable, efficient….and offshore wind energy, specifically floating wind turbines, have come to eliminate the few negative aspects that onshore wind could have.
The sea is immense, and the wind is unlimited. If we put both natural resources together we have systems of incredible potential. Offshore wind power is being implemented in numerous countries, making it possible to generate electricity in areas without other energy resources.
For this dream of energy possible for everyone to become a reality, it is necessary to invest in research into these systems, which are still in development.
At the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) (http://www.floatingwindturbineucm.com/) there is a research group that for several years has achieved along the last 10 years important achievements in the control and supervision of wind turbines, improving their operation and reducing production costs.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
The Automatic Control Group (ACG) at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) is a pioneering research team in Spain in the field of control applications for marine energy systems (www.ehu.eus/acg). With over 20 years of experience, it has a formal agreement with the Basque Energy Agency (EVE) – BiMEP for the use of the Mutriku’s Power Plant, an OWC-based pilot plant
located in the Basque coast.
