The Port of Granadilla de Abona currently has a committed private investment of 620 million euros through various initiatives, among which are the 40 million from the Primavera project. It is a Floating wind platform with two 5.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines with the capacity to cover the average electricity consumption of almost 19,000 homes in Tenerife.
The entity Primavera Offshore Wind, SL requested the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife the administrative concession to occupy 445,000 square meters in the dock of the Port of Granadilla. There he wants to locate and exploit this floating industry and the attached facilities. The initiative has already passed the project competition process and is now entering the public information phase, as confirmed by the Port Authority.
Carlos gonzalezits president, highlights this project as an investment in “significant” research, development and innovation (R+D+i), since it is about testing a floating wind turbine model “in experimentation”. Responds to the agreement that Ports has with the Oceanic Platform of Canary Islands (Plocan), “which has already tested this wind turbine at its experimentation center” in Gran Canaria and which will now test its operation in the environment for which it is designed. In this case, on the marine platform linked to the Port of Granadilla, very close to the breakwater, within the planning established for the use of anchoring waters, clarifies the president, Carlos González.
Primavera Offshore Wind SL is a company created by EnerOcean –a leading Spanish company in offshore wind power and other renewable technologies at sea– to carry out the Primavera project. It consists of the engineering, installation, operation, maintenance and dismantling of a floating offshore wind platform for renewable electrical energy using W2Power technology.
The new technology
With two wind turbines mounted on the same floating structure, always oriented towards the prevailing wind, W2Power offers one of the highest power-to-weight ratios and lowest cost of energy of any floating wind technology. This technology is composed of two wind turbines each supported by a leaning tower and assembled to a floating base made up of four main columns made of steel. In the bow column, the mooring system will be connected, which guarantees at all times the orientation of the platform (therefore, of the wind turbines) towards the direction of the prevailing wind, thus taking advantage of the wind resource present in the area of the Puerto de Granadilla requested for the concession.
The Port Authority thus explains and values the Primavera project, in addition, which will benefit the port community of Granadilla and its surroundings, will demonstrate the capacity of the W2Power floating solution to generate energy from the wind and that the verification of the operation of this installation will allow the mobilization of large investments under advantageous conditions, thus creating employment of quality through commercial parks that use floating wind technology. It will also demonstrate installation and maintenance procedures that can be used for the optimal design of multi-unit parks.
The Primavera project will be key to testing new monitoring and maintenance techniques before their large-scale deployment and will place the Canary Islands in the international market for the manufacture, assembly and installation of this industry. In fact, it will establish itself as an advanced center for the training of personnel in the maintenance of floating installations worldwide. The Port Authority conveys that the facility will become, thanks to its replicability, a world reference for ecological, technical and economically effective solutions for ports and other industries with a presence on the coast in order to achieve the zero emissions goal.
620 million investment
The deployment of wind energy, ship repair and the decarbonization of Endesa’s electrical energy will activate the Port of Granadilla de Abona. The 50 megawatt offshore wind farm, owned by the companies BlueFloat Energy and Capital Energy; a natural gas and green hydrogen power plant, promoted by the company Sampol Ingeniería y Obras; a liquefied natural gas storage plant, promoted by Totisa Enegría; the Tenerife Shipyards shipyard; the Petrocan fuel storage factory, with the installation of 13 tanks due to the withdrawal of the Refinery, and the test of the W2Power wind turbine of the Primavera project They are part of the 620 million euros of private investment already committed to the Port of Granadilla.
