Offshore Power Electronics

Main funding:

• The Research Council of Norway, Clean Energy for the Future programme – RENERGI
  - Approximately 70 % of the funding

Financing Industry Partners and members of the project steering committee:

• Wärtsila Norway
  • Product development and production of power drives for ship and industry
  • Medium voltage power electronic converters for offshore applications 
• Statkraft Development
  • Power utility company  with large focus in offshore wind
  • Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm in operation
  • Dudgeon wind farm under development
  • Plans for developing Doggerbank wind farm cluster
  • Major customer of power electronic converters for offshore wind parks
• GE Wind Energy together with GE Global Research Center
  • Supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies
  • High interest and focus in power conversion technologies

University Partner:

• The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Department of Electric Power Engineering
  - Supervision of post doc and master students
• Technical University of Chemnitz
  Chair of Power electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility
  - Supervison of PhD-student and general collaboration within the reliability activities