Digital hydraulic PTO for Floating Power Plant (DigitalPTO)

The Danish hydraulics sector is world leading, particularly within the wind industry. The technical concept known as “digital hydraulics” has a great potential in renewable energy applications, as it offers a cost-effective and very control-lable way of handling the large forces associated with renewable energy.
The DigitalPTO project advances the state of the art for digital hydraulics by applying the concept as a Power Take Off system (PTO) for the wave part of the hybrid wind and wave energy platform, which is developed by the company Floating Power Plant (FPP). In the project, the existing PTO, which has already been demonstrated offshore, is combined with novel, advanced control strategies.
FPP is on the brink of a commercial breakthrough with its hybrid platform. The further development and demonstration of this specific part of FPP’s technology, will facilitate the commercial breakthrough by improving the performance of the PTO and decreasing the perceived risk in the technology.