Month: February 2021

  • Nearshore wind turbines foundations

    Nearshore (or “intertidal”) foundations are not a usual type of foundations. It is a hybrid solution, an on-shore foundation in a quasi-offshore environment. I have heard about this type of foundations several times in my career. The first time it was a preliminary design that I have made about 10 years ago for a Chinese…

  • IEC 61400-6:2020 Tower and foundation design requirements: a new Design Code is in town!

    The IEC (acronym of International Electrotechnical Commission) has just released a new design code. More precisely it is a new section of an existing code, the IEC61400. The IEC is an international organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies, including energy production and distribution devices. The IEC 61400…

  • Infraworks for due diligence and preliminary designs

    If you either work for a WTG manufacturer or any electric utility the situation in which you are asked to do a complete analyse of a project very quickly (like in 2 or 3 days) is very common. You are usually asked to do this task for several reasons: Preparation of a first rough layout…