Titan-Fraunhofer

Floating LiDAR

Changing the game. Offshore.

Offshore wind power trends

• Prices are decreasing but are not expected to reach a plateau in the

near future

• Corporate PPAs and hedge instruments in Europe

• Taiwan aggressive reduction of tariffs reaching now half of the original

FiT

Source: Bloomberg

• Global installations projected to grow

• APAC (China to the largest extent) is the major global growth driver

• UK and Germany still the main drivers in Europe

• US picking up post 2020

Titan and Fraunhofer IWES

• Wind farm digitalization and predictive maintenance

• Testing

• Commercial viability of new technologies for the

Chinese market

LiDAR Buoy:

• First Offshore LiDAR System in China

• 7 units deployed in the second half of 2018

Fraunhofer Institute:

• 72 Fraunhofer institutes in Germany

• More than 24,000 employees, mainly with an academic

background

in natural or engineering sciences

• € 2.4 billion annual research budget

Fraunhofer IWES:

• € 80 million infrastructure investments

• 170 employees

Titan Technologies Corporation:

• Rich experience in the wind industry (since 2009)

• High-tech company with data analytics focus

• Aritificial Intelligence applied to industrial digitalization

• 850 projects realized in 10 years of operations

• 100 highly qualified data anlytics and algorithm experts

Titan-Fraunhofer

Floating LiDAR

• Sino-German Joint Development

• Accurate Measurement of Offshore Environmental Data at

Different Heights

• Offshore Wind Resource Assessment, Power Curve

Verification

• Proven track record in Europe and now adopted by China Three

Gorges Group and China General

Nuclear for several of their sites

ORE Catapult report

Criteria Data Points Slope R2

Best Practice N/A 0.98-1.02 >0.98

Minimum N/A 0.97-1.03 >0.97

100m (WS>2) 6778 1.006 0.992

100m (4

• Verification carried out for a period

of 6 months from December 2016

to May 2017

• Reference mast: FINO3, approx.

80 km west-northwest of the

Island of Sylt, Germany

• System equipped with Leoshpere Windcube LiDAR

• Full acceptance of all KPIs:

• Overall System Availability >99.5%• Monitor System Availability >98.2%• Overall Post-quality-filtered Data

Availability >96.7 %

DNV GL Independent

Assessment at FINO3 “The slopes are within the best

practice acceptance criteria [0.98 >

Xmws > 1.02] and the Coefficient of

Determination meets the best

practice acceptance criteria

[R2mws > 0.98]”

“The KPI values for Slope, R2 and

Offset2 are within the best practice

acceptance criteria at all selected

heights”

Wind speed:

Wind direction:

Track Record

Date Campaign / Project Position LiDAR

Q3-Q4 2013 Validation Campaign (BMU Research Project) Fino 1 Leosphere Windcube

Q3 2014 Validation Campaign – Test new LiDAR Fino 1 ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1-Q2 2015 Validation Campaign Fino 1 Leosphere Windcube

Q2-Q3 2015 OBLIX-F1 (Offshore Boundary Layer Exper.) Fino 1 Leosphere Windcube

Q3 2015 OBLIX-F1 Fino 1 ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q3 2015 OBLIX-F1 Fino 1 ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q4 2015 RUNE Danish west coast Leosphere Windcube

Q1-Q2 2016 RUNE2 Danish west coast Leosphere Windcube

Q1-Q3 2016 CT Pre-Commercial Fino 1 ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q4 16 - Q3 17 DNV-GL Pre-commercial Fino 3 Leosphere Windcube

Q3 2017 - Seagreen Scottish east coast ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q4 2017- KOWL Scottish east coast Leosphere Windcube

Q1 2018 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #1 East China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1 2018 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #2 East China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q4 2018 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #3 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q4 2018 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #4 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1 2019 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #5 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1 2019 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #6 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1 2019 - Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #7 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1 2019 Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #8 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q1 2019 Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #9 South China Sea ZephIR (ZX Lidars)

Q2 2019 Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #10 Confidential TBD

Q2 2019 Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #11 Confidential TBD

Q2 2019 Titan-Fraunhofer Buoy #12 Confidential TBD

Verification of wind speed and wind direction (China)

R2 (70m) = 0.986

R2 (90m) = 0.986

R2 (110m) = 0.990

Average data availability > 94%

10 min data during Typhoon (Nov. 2018)

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2018/10/30

8:00

2018/10/30

13:50

2018/10/30

19:40

2018/10/31

1:30

2018/10/31

7:20

2018/10/31

13:10

2018/10/31

19:00

2018/11/1

0:50

2018/11/1

6:40

2018/11/1

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2018/11/1

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2018/11/2

0:10

2018/11/2

6:00

2018/11/2

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2018/11/2

17:40

2018/11/2

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2018/11/3

5:20

风速

(m/s

)

speed_70m speed_90m speed_110m

10-min average wind speed 26.08m/s

Max wind speeds reached 50 m/s

No damage to the buoy and data availability of 100%！

Cloud-based platform and APP

• 24/7 monitoring of Floating LiDAR status

• Easy access to all operational parameters and historical data

• Customizable to reflect the desired set of KPIs

Thank you