World’s First Floating Ocean Hybrid Platform Harvests Wind, Solar And Wave Energy

A German company has created the world’s first floating Ocean Hybrid Platform. SINN Power’s platform can be used “as a complete off-grid energy solution,” generating renewable energy from waves, wind and the sun. It’s conceived as a modular system that can be specified with any or all of these features, depending on where it’s being deployed and what your power needs are.

Designed to handle waves up to six meters (19.6 ft) in height, it can harvest energy from waves up to 2 m (6.5 ft) high without the platform itself moving much at all, thanks to a series of floats that move 10-ft (3-m) pushrods up and down in response to wave activity. Each of these can generate up to 24 kW in ideal conditions, and there’s one at each corner of each 12 x 12-m (39.3 x 39.3-ft) floating unit. 12×12 is the smallest floating unit. Arrays can be customized to power demands up to 120x120m.

On top of that, you can place 10 kWp wind turbines at each junction point, and cover the entire top surface with solar panels, which could contribute up to a total of 20 kW to the final output of the unit. Every unit can be equipped with approx. 20kWp, depending on the PV modules used. Wave Energy converters can be substituted by small wind turbines with a maximum power of 10kWp.

Depending on the location, an optimized layout is developed by SINN Power’s propreitary simulation software. Dr-Ing. Philipp Sinn (CEO, SINN Power) explains; “Modularity has been a key aspect since we started developing maritime technologies which allows flexibility and a wide variety of applications.’

“The floating platform can supply renewable energy to island resorts in the Caribbean and contribute to the worldwide implementation of offshore wind farms.’ “SINN Power is the first to offer a customisable energy solution using waves, small wind and PV according to climatic conditions of any location and at competitive prices compared to other proven technologies.” Starting this summer, SINN Power will off