Siemens projects that from 2025 its offshore wind farms produce electricity at a standard energy cost less than € 0.08 / kWh, including access to the network on the ground.
The German giant told Global Offshore Wind 2016 Manchester is confident that its current production target of wind energy at sea below 0.10 € / kWh will be reached in 2020.
He said he has already reached 72% of this goal of cost reduction, with nearly half attributed to technical improvements in the turbines, the installation process, the new technology of grid connection and maintenance strategies logistics .
The reduction in the next five years is mainly based on the next generation of wind turbines at sea and the new bases offshore mass produced, Siemens said.
"The annual energy production can increase by 10% in average offshore wind conditions, if rotor diameter and the generator output also increased by 10%," the company added.
Siemens said it will be reinforced by mid-2017 for the manufacture of the sheet and the entire wind turbine in Hull in the UK and manufacturing platforms in Cuxhaven in Germany.
digitization process could provide an additional potential to increase efficiency in plants, which makes it even more economical technology, the company added.
Siemens said it is to test the seriousness of the foundations of the jacket, including a transition piece of concrete with Danish offshore project in 2017.
He added that the grid structure will be assembled using prefabricated nodes and standard steel pipe.
Siemens is currently testing the corrosion resistance and resistance to static nodes.
Further cost reductions may result from the improvement of the concepts of offshore services and advances in network access technologies, the company said.
"The project of 588MW Beatrice in Scottish waters using compact Marino Siemens transformer modules, reducing the cost of network connections AC-to about 40%," he said.
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