PRINCIPIA offers to the industry top class services from expertise to the asset owners, to the conception and basic design of high value systems, all these services being fed by a constant R&D effort since its creation in 1981.

Based on 35 years’ experience on mooring system, cable and offshore structure design in the Oil & Gas industry, PRINCIPIA have managed to transfer this know how since 2010 toward the Marine Renewable Energy Sector.

Capacities

• +15 year experience Project Managers on Offshore Projects
• Hydrodynamic / Mooring / Structure / Cable specialists
• Team of + 50 engineers dedicated to Offshore project (up to 90 with our Danish partner, LIC engineering)
• Large computing resources

Principia is also supplying to the offshore wind market a specific commercial software dedicated to integrated load analyses of floating and fixed offshore wind turbines (DeepLines Wind®: Hydro-aero elastic capability) which is now used by Bureau Veritas and ABS Group for the certification of offshore wind projects.

Offshore Wind - Scope of Services

• Design Basis & Design Brief
• Monopile, Jacket or floating foundation screening study
• Foundation FEED/detailed design
• Integrated load analysis & Load Assessment
• FOWT Global performance analysis
• Mooring system design
• Subsea cable engineering package
• Transportation, installation and logistic studies
• Basin Test Specifications & Analyses
• Drawings Packages

Principia has now been working on +10 different floating platform concepts for various developers within the floating offshore wind market and identified as a leader for FOWT consultancy services. PRINCIPIA provide state-of-the-art consultancy services for bottom fixed foundation design using integrated load analyses.

Marine Renewable Energy - Scope of Services

PRINCIPIA is also active in supporting other marine renewable technologies based on its unique combination of skills required for such challenging design works:

• Floating solar technology (Solar PV)
• Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC)
• Wave Energy Converter (WEC)
• Tidal Energy Converter (TEC) system