Response and Motion Performance of Offshore 5MW NREL Wind Turbine Platforms Based on Lakshadweep Costal Ocean State

The demand of electrical energy is getting higher around the world every other passing day and India is no such exception. With limited non-renewable resources of energy to generate electricity, India is slowly shifting its focus towards renewable resources of energy like solar and wind to produce electricity. Here in this project we majority focuses on the design and response of the floater platforms which carry 5MW wind turbines as floating entity. A major breakthrough in the offshore wind turbine research is the introduction of mini TLP’s which are very much small and cost effective than normal TLP’s for wind extraction purposes. ANSYS AQWA a commercial suite of hydrodynamic programs, which is widely used in the offshore industry is adopted in this project to execute the Hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis. Lakshadweep locality is selected within two latitudes and longitudes latitudinal and longitudinal extent are selected according to similar ocean floor depth without much undulation in bathymetric data.