PRESENTATIONOFOFFSHOREACTIVITIES

Stockholm - Sweeden September 2009

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1. PRESENTATION OF APIA XXI GROUP 2.RENEWABLE ENERGY RELATED ACTIVITIES 3. OFFSHORE FLOATING STRUCTURES 4. NEXT STEPS

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1. PRESENTATION OF APIA XXI GROUP 2. RENEWABLE ENERGY RELATED ACTIVITIES 3. OFFSHORE FLOATING STRUCTURES 4. NEXT STEPS

1.PRESENTATIONOFAPIAXXIGROUP

KEY FIGURES Founded in Spain in 1987 500 employees p y Present in 3 world regions BUSINESS AREAS

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CONSULTING AND ENGINEERING Global and integrated solutions in following engineering and architectural fields: infrastructures, hydraulic works, town and city planning, environment, construction, industry and energy, management t and d new technologies. t h l i

The group offers comprehensive consulting services, ranging from the planning prior to projects to the final control and construction phases, including all the general management and advisory processes.

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CONSTRUCTION Activity areas: civil works building industry and energy

Execution& Refurbishment ofWorks

EPC

Exploitation& Maintenance

Promotion

Services: construction and restoration comprehensive EPC infrastructure operation and maintenance promotion p

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EQUITY INVESTMENTS APIA XXI Group is present in public and private investment projects, contributing its consulting experience and backing its active participation, as an investor, during all the project phases, including the construction and operation. operation

Energy (renewable) wind farm development solar PV plant development development of offshore substructures Infrastructures Mendicouague underground car park

Environment and Territory Agroenergy cropping Solar PV greenhouses Industry Structures manufacturing Mataporquera

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APIA XXI Group carries out projects through its wide network of branches established in four strategic i geographical hi l areas across the h world: ld Spain, S i Central C l Europe, E L i America Latin A i and d the h USA. USA

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2.RENEWABLEENERGYRELATEDACTIVITIES

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT wind resource assessment wind farm / PV plant design permitting and administrative procedures with authorities and grid operator Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) civil engineering (access roads, platforms, foundations, etc.) CONSTRUCTION civil works erections supervision and management OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE O&M of PV plants monitoring and data management

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PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Solar tracker Solar PV greenhouse Offshore floating met mast Offshore floating substructures for WT (in progress) Monitoring systems

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3.OFFSHOREFLOATINGSTRUCTURES

LOCATION

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LOCATION

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PROJECTOVERALLGOAL 1. Develop, build and install research floating platforms to assess wind, wave and other environmental conditions. 2. Develop floating substructures to support current multimegawatt offshore wind turbines for 50200 m sea depths at a competitive cost

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PROJECTORGANIZATION PHASE 1: Theoretical and functional validation. COMBSHORE project funded by CDTI (Finished) PHASE 2: Design, construction and installation of experimental floating platforms. POM project funded by CDTI(Feb. 2009 Feb. 2011) Scale tests in water tank. tank Installation and instrumentation of 2 floating met masts. Installation and instrumentation of a 300kW WT on floating platform. Constructive, logistic and O&M development for floating offshore WTs. PHASE 3: Installation of grid connected multimegawatt floating WT Consortium: Apia XXI, Instituto Hidrulico de Cantabria (IH), Transportes Lasarte, Erzia, Ecol

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MAJORACHIEVEMENTS Development of numerical analysis procedure for floating structures based on commercial FEM and MBS codes + inhouse developed routines (hydrodynamics) Inhouse design and construction of experimental water tank for scale models with wave and wind loading g

Performance of wave loading tests for different floating substructure design alternatives using scale models Design, construction and installation of a 100m long floating metmast nearby Santander Development and installation of a monitoring and communication system Design and construction of a 130m long floating metmast (current assembly on dock in Santander)

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STRUCTUREOFFIRSTFLOATINGMETMAST

Total height: 100m 100m. (above sea sea-level: level: 60 m m.) )

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DOCKOVERVIEW

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FLOATERTANK

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ASSEMBLYOFBALLASTANDFLOATERTANKSWITHCENTRALTUBE

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TRANSPORTATION

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INSTRUMENTATION

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INSTALLEDPLATFORM

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1. PRESENTATION OF APIA XXI GROUP 2.RENEWABLE ENERGY RELATED ACTIVITIES 3. OFFSHORE FLOATING STRUCTURES 4. NEXT STEPS

4.NEXTSTEPS

SHORT TERM Assemble and install second floating met mast Analyse field data MEDIUMTERM Expand current numerical analysis procedure to account for coupled dynamic analysis of mooring, substructure and WT Adapt current water tank test protocols to account for wind thrust on WT Design, scale test and build platform for small WT Install floating substructure with small WT (summer 2010) LONGTERM Design, scale test and build platform for multimegawatt WT Install floating substructure with multimegawatt WT (summer 2011)