A securing assembly for securing a support tower to a wind turbine tower. The securing assembly includes a base part and a fastening module for securing the support tower to the wind turbine tower. The fastening module includes a rope for surrounding the wind turbine tower, and an arm including an inner portion attached to the base part and an outer portion provided with a rope sliding element arranged to slidably hold the rope. Each end of the rope is provided with an eye end. The arm is provided with a plurality of knobs arranged spaced apart along the arm for receiving the eye ends of the rope and for supporting the rope.

An offshore wind turbine installation comprising a wind turbine on a support structure. A concrete-cast transition piece is provided in between the tower of the wind turbine and a tower support of the support structure. Flanges of the tower and the tower support are either bolted to each other, sandwiching the transition piece in between, or bolted into the transition piece for fixation.

A tower drum section includes: a drum section base, including two or more tower drum pieces successively distributed along its circumferential direction; and a connecting assembly. The connecting assembly includes a first connecting member and a second connecting member; the first connecting member is located inside one of the two adjacent tower drum pieces, and the second connecting member is at least partially located inside the other of the two adjacent tower drum pieces; the first connecting member includes an adapter portion and an anchoring portion. A tower includes two or more tower drum sections connected to each other. A wind turbine includes the tower. Disclosed are a mold for manufacturing the tower drum section and a method for manufacturing the tower drum section using the mold.

The present invention can be included in the technical field of concrete segments for wind turbine towers and more specifically for wind turbine towers in cold climates, where ambient temperature is below 5 C. at the same time, the invention relates to a set of a concrete segment and heating means, a concrete section, a wind turbine, a mould and a method of assembling the wind turbine.

A tower-like structure is provided for a wind turbine. The tower-like structure includes at least one lower component and one upper component which is in part placed over the lower component to form a slip joint. The upper and the lower component each have a conical component section. The upper and the lower component also each have at least one further component section which jointly forms the slip joint and which, when viewed transversely with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the structure, is located above and/or below the conical component section. The surface perpendiculars of the further component sections intersect the longitudinal axis at an angle (a) greater than the surface perpendiculars of the conical component section.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a connecting device for a tower-like structure, in particular an offshore wind turbine, wherein the connecting device comprises a plurality of connecting elements, in particular planar connecting elements, which are to be arranged between an upper component of the structure and a lower component of the structure when a slip joint is produced and, for the purpose of load transfer between the upper component and the lower component, are to be positioned next to one another in the peripheral direction about the longitudinal axis and/or in the longitudinal direction thereof with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the structure, wherein data relating to an actual size of the lower component and of the upper component is provided, whereupon the shape, the position and/or the condition of individual or several as well as in particular all connecting elements of the connecting device are least in part determined in a manner specific to the connecting element in order to optimise the load transfer and/or in order to compensate for any deviations of the lower component and/or of the upper component from their desired size, and the connecting elements, that have been manufactured in advance and/or subsequently, are provided for assembly on at least one of the components. The invention also relates to: a tower-like structure, in particular part of an offshore wind turbine; and a wind turbine, in particular an offshore wind turbine.

A frustum connector for connecting wind turbine tower portions is provided, which frustum connector includes a plurality of individual steel segments, wherein each segment includes two side edges, an upper edge and a lower edge, wherein the length of the lower edge of a segment exceeds the length of the upper edge of that segment; and wherein the vertical side edges of adjacent segments are adapted for connection at a wind turbine installation site. A wind turbine tower and a method of constructing a wind turbine tower is also provided.

The present application discloses a supercomputing center system, which includes a wind-powered vessel, and a damping device, at least one supercomputing device, a control device, and a wind power generation device that are arranged on the hull of the wind-powered vessel. The damping device is configured to maintain the stability of the hull; the supercomputing device is configured to perform operations; the control device controls the wind power generation device to generate power and adjusts the angles of the damping device based on real-time sea condition information; and the wind power generation device supplies power to the supercomputing device, the damping device, and the control device.

A hybrid wind turbine tower includes at least one polygonal tower section with a polygonal cross-sectional profile connected to a foundation, at least one tubular tower section with a circular cross-sectional profile for connection to the nacelle, and a transition piece disposed between the at least one polygonal tower section and the at least one tubular tower section. The transition piece includes an upper portion having a circular cross-sectional profile connected to a lower end of the at least one tubular tower section, and a lower portion having a polygonal cross-sectional profile connected to an upper end of the at least one polygonal tower section. A method for assembling a hybrid wind turbine tower is also disclosed.

The invention relates to a tower for a wind turbine or a mobile radio transceiver system with at least one section with polygonally arranged walls, wherein the walls are formed from a wood-based material, wherein in each case two walls in a corner of the polygon are connected to one another in the form of a vertical joint with in each case one side face. It is advantageous that the side surface of a wall in the vertical joint has at least one connecting element, that the at least one connecting element is suitable for transmitting shear forces in the vertical joint, that the at least one connecting element has at least one projection (prong) and at least one recess (valley), that the at least one projection and the at least one recess are arranged in such a way that the at least one projection of one wall engages in the at least one recess of the other wall in the assembled state of the walls in the vertical joint, and that at least one step is provided between a projection and a recess, wherein the projections of two connecting means of two walls are arranged one above the other in the assembled state of the walls in the vertical joint.