Pivoting Deck Vessel prototype construction

该项目的目标是建造一艘旋转甲板船（PDV）原型，供公用事业公司试用，其中PDV将证明它通过减少涡轮机停机时间来增加海上风力发电收入，从而降低海上风力发电成本并降低英国消费者电费。通过增加可再生能源发电，所需的化石燃料发电量减少，从而也减少了碳排放，提高了供应安全性。公用事业需要船只将船员和货物转移到海上风力涡轮机进行维护，以及风力发电场建设。问题是，目前的船舶设计不允许在波涛汹涌的海面上安全和具有成本效益地接近涡轮机，因此当海面高时，涡轮机停机时间增加，发电收入损失，海上风力发电成本上升。北海物流PDV的创新旋转甲板设计解决了这一问题，使船员和货物能够在更高的海域安全地进入涡轮机。PDV是2011年CarbonTrust海上风电加速器接入竞赛的决赛选手。

The project aim is to build a prototype Pivoting Deck Vessel (PDV) ready for trial by utilities, in which the PDVwill demonstrate that it increases offshore wind electricity generating revenues by reducing turbine downtime,thereby decreasing the cost of offshore wind electricity and lowering UK consumer electricity bills. Byincreasing renewable electricity generation, the amount of fossil fuel generation required reduces, thus alsolowering carbon emissions and increasing security of supply. Utilities require vessels to transfer crew and cargoto offshore wind turbines for maintenance, as well as for wind farm construction. The problem is that currentvessel designs do not allow for safe and cost-effective access to turbines in rougher seas and so when seas arehigh, turbine downtime increases, electricity generating revenues are lost and the costs of offshore windgeneration rise. The innovative pivoting deck design of North Sea Logistics’ PDV addresses this problem,allowing safe access to turbines in higher seas for crew and cargo. The PDV was a 2011 finalist in the CarbonTrust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator Access competition.