Flag Turbines

It's conference and exhibition season. And Flag Turbines is happy to join 4 events in November. 5-11, 18.00 to 18.30 Pitch at Tholen Plein at Contacta. Get your free tickets here; https://lnkd.in/eGnnJddg 5-11, 20.30 to 21.30 Presenting with Rabobank in Contacta, Zeeland Hallen Goes. Register here; Aanmelden voor Flag Turbines: een Zeeuwse startup die windenergie overal en voor iedereen beschikbaar maakt!: Contacta - Eticketsysteem 6-11, 13.00 to 16.00 Demonstrating our pilot turbine meesters de koeijer & glashelder roegiers in Heinkenszand. Only for pilot customers. 19-11 19.00 to 21.00 Expert interview at ondernemersoverleg Tholen. For Tholen businesses. 26-11 Showcasing on NL Pavilion at OEEC2024. Register here; https://lnkd.in/gRKWNSbF Free for students and press! Looking forward to be in touch, and to share our thoughts on your ideas and use case.

Why Flag Turbines? Because wind energy can be cheaper and wind turbines can be nicer. And because advanced turbine technology will unleash the vast potential of tidal energy and river hydro energy. Why not? It's worth the dedication, the tough times, the risk of getting hit by a blade, the cut's caused by sharp edges and the clamping by strong magnets! But above all..., it's fun to do 😀 A short impression of BLOwN's engineering history. Proudly taken to market by Flag Turbines Follow us to stay up to date with the latest news; https://lnkd.in/eKSSP3AE Eric Caron Rob van de Pijpekamp Maarten van Oeveren

What a week! Flag Turbines UK Ltd was founded on 19-7-2024, with registration in Edinburgh. And on the margins of #floatingwind24 we formalized the shareholders agreement with co-founders Andy Rogerson and Stephan Ashley. This main photo shows an overwhelming support. High level interest from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Development International, in action as Flag Turbines UK. With a Royal IHC methanol-fueled vessel on the background. Flag Turbines partner in our project submission to NATO DIANA. Our vision for a sustainable future. Under support, and with advice of 🇳🇱 export association Holland Home of Wind Energy. Looking forward for a firm collaboration with all of you to push floating offshore wind.

Great to be at #floatingwind24. Many thanks for the invitation Holland Home of Wind Energy!

A lot of interest the other option for floating wind! We will be there to pilot any size of #VAWT floating wind with our proprietary BLOwN Technology!

Some market research on #FloatingWind by Deutsche Welle. To summarize; 1 - Do we want this? 2- Can we afford this? 3 - Do we benefit from it? https://lnkd.in/eXzBF_Tc Our position; 1 - For most of us it is probably fine. As long as our energy bills are stable. Floating turbines are not in people's back yard. Fishermen probably don't like them. Ecologists worry about the recyclability and tourists don't like the disturbed horizon. For the industry it is perfect. An almost unlimited industry. 2 - But we probably can't afford them. 8.000 tons for the floating structure of an 8 MW turbine (1:20) is 1000 kg for 1 kW of wind turbine. And these are very advanced and high tech kilo's, on which the costs saving potential is very limited. That's indeed different from the engineer costs (5:58) which can be spread over the turbines. But these initial costs are just a fraction, and assume no optimization is needed. Same with maintenance and recycling costs. They are not mentioned here. Therefore the €140/MWh (8:55) is just the starting costs..., be prepared for the unfortunate unforeseen costs which are unavoidable in these harsh conditions, with such a precious piece of technology. WARNING!! 3 - Do we benefit? These turbines are ideally suitable to provide power for the energy intensive industry. Like steel plants, chemical plants, data centers etc. Maybe big cities as well. But when you live remote, on a nice island, with more then average nature around you, the power generated is unlikely to reach your house via the grid. That tiny cable connecting your home is too thin to demand a portion of that power. The phenomenon is called grid congestion, and is the botte neck (cable neck 😉) for the energy transition. Why so difficult? Can't we find a better solution? The BLOwN engineers at Flag Turbines succeeded in developing a robust and scalable #verticalaxisturbine, ideally suitable for floating application https://lnkd.in/eGw8HQ3M, weighing only 50 kg/kW, with fully recyclable materials. And we are super excited that we received last Friday the confirmation from simulation, based on post-processing with a straight-forward mathematical model, that the technology is beating the #HAWT in terms of performance. Bottom line; a fully scalable, light weight and easy technology, which performs better then the complicated and expensive standard technology. Follow us to receive more updates on the performance, the costs and how we try to lower energy costs by making free energy available to society. #EnergyEverywhere. #ForEveryone.

Flag Turbines had the privilege of enjoying this breakfast on MS Almax, built by 🇮🇹 Sanlorenzo Yacht at the second day of #sustainablesmartmarina, hosted by 🇲🇨 Monaco Marina Management. This 50m long Super Yacht is equipped with a 100kW methanol fuel-cell, enough to power the hotel power demand of the yacht. According to 🇳🇱 magazine Schuttevaer the most sustainable super yacht ever built; https://lnkd.in/e3mzqSJt The potential of these yachts is much bigger than the 100kW hotel consumption. It’s 55.000 ltr fuel tank can safely contain an equivalent of 236 MWh of useful electric energy in the form of methanol, a liquid with nice material properties. For production of a full tank of methanol roughly 500MWh is needed. Imagine to have 20MW of #floatingwind, which can’t be connected to the grid. In full windconditions that wind power will produce the methanol in just ONE day. And no need to worry about the capacityfactor of #floatingwind, 60-80% is feasible. Depending on type and location of the turbine. No issues at all with netcongestion and safety. Energy delivered to society via the Marina. #EnergyEverywhere. #ForEveryone. Let’s do what needs to be done! Marco Van Oeveren Gabbi Richardson Patricia Becker Romi van Hilten

Flag Turbines is fundraising. Great to be featured by investisseur.TV. Many thanks for the publication Stéphane Romanyszyn! Watch our CEO's pitch starting at 13:44 on https://lnkd.in/exXTxBme

Flag Turbines is invited to join the #floatingwind24, with the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Lounge. The big industry. Our BLOwN Vertical axis turbine technology has a patented scalable design.., so we say it is a “one-size-fits-all” solution. But that’s what we say. To be invited by the big industry is absolutely a recognition of that claim. Like the soft confirmation that we received after pitching to University of Strathclyde Offshore Energy faculty. Let’s see if we can also agree on our claim to be carbon negative with Floating Turbines within 4 years.

It was an incredible Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous, organized by Monaco Marina Management. Committed architects, innovators, investors, captains and marina managers..., all together looking for the next step to accelerate to a sustainable future. The Rendezvous was praised for of its high quality of start-ups, which we take as a compliment. Also Randy Durband's advice to focus on energy was a much welcomed confirmation of our focus on wind power technology. Like senior marine professional Oscar Siches said; "We can not rule the power of nature. Only who understand it, can try to play with it". And that's exactly what our BLOwN engineers say..; "We love to play with the wind, and by doing so we understand it's dynamics better and better, which enable us to apply full sailing technology on vertical axis wind turbines". It was fantastic to have sailing yacht S/Y Galma of Wally Yachts, right in front of the Yacht Club de Monaco. We firmly believe that our BLOwN Technology will create #floatingwindpower at the scale of this beautiful sailing yacht. And that an array of these S/Y Galma sized "Sailing Turbines" can create more then 20MW of power. Something where methanol fuel cell powered MY Almax of Sanlorenzo Yacht can help out. Imagine, refueling methanol from #floatingwind “Sailing Turbines” and going back to the Marina to power the port, instead of drawing power from the congested grid of the port. It will be a massive landslide in the energy transition. Clearly an “out-of-the-port” solution, and absolutely not impossible. At Flag Turbines we are convinced that it can be done, and therefore we will plan a little bit, try the best possible and leap-frog forward by improving day after day.