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Samsung Heavy Industries Has Been Producing Wind Turbines Since 2013 and This Is No Surprise, the Novelty Is That the Company Is Bringing to the Offshore Wind Energy Market an Innovative Solution: A Floater with Wind Turbines That Promises to Reduce Installation Time
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) is venturing into the offshore wind energy market and developing a new model of an offshore wind floater. On Monday (19), the company announced that it received Approval in Principle (AiP) for its floater model with 9.5 scale wind turbines.
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Based on 40 years of data analysis, including wind strength, water depth, and tide, Samsung developed an optimized design that ensures safety in extreme marine environments.
Samsung began developing the floater model with offshore wind turbines in October of last year, before completing testing of the floating water tank model at the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (Kriso) in March, alongside classification societies, government agencies, and other partners.
Samsung Promotes Sustainability with Investments in Offshore Wind Energy
According to the head of Samsung Heavy Industries’ technology department, Ho-Hyun Jung, the global movement to combat climate change has been growing exponentially, resulting in high demand for renewable energy technologies, such as offshore wind energy.
Therefore, it is expected that this platform with floating offshore wind turbines will help combat climate change. Samsung claims that it bases its designs on floating oil drilling platforms.
The goal is to suppress future demand for this type of renewable energy by developing a competitive model, leveraging its land engineering capabilities.
Get to Know Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung Heavy Industries was founded in 1974 and is a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate. It is one of the largest shipyards in South Korea and also became a manufacturer of wind turbines in 2013.
The company operates three industrial plants in South Korea: Goeje Shipyard, Daeduk R&D, and Pangyo R&D Center, as well as two additional plants overseas. SHI builds passenger ships, cargo ships, and FPSOs aimed at oil exploration. In the late 1980s, it began producing vehicles, starting with forklifts, and in 1993 initiated the production of trucks and electric car prototypes.
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