We have developed a family of patents
that allow for the connection of an offshore wind farm
to a DC link
in order to transmit the energy to the power system.
When you connect an offshore wind farm
to a DC link,
you need to generate voltage and frequency for the farm.
That is done by the existing VSC stations.
We have developed a control system
that allows us to control the voltage and frequency
in the offshore wind farm
when we use a rectifier station
as a diode station.
The main advantage of these systems
that use diode rectifier stations
is that they're much cheaper, which allows us to reduce the cost,
making it an economically viable system.
The current state of the system has been validated
through detailed simulations of the entire system
and also through a small-scale laboratory prototype.
Our main clients would be
big electric companies that can build
those diode rectifier stations.
Being part of the UC3M Science Park
has helped us to enhance the value of the patents we have developed
and to transfer the technology.