Generating Renewable Energy

1. John Baross – Founder & Director
Axis Energy Projects Group Limited
Axis Energy TLB Limited
Suite Nos. 1&2
Centurion Business Centre
North Esplanade West
Aberdeen AB11 5QH
E: jbaross@axis-ep.com
D: +441224 284311
M: +44 7939 306008
S: +44 1224 284310
Web: www.axis-ep.com
Axis Energy Projects Group
Axis Energy TLB Ltd.
Axis Energy
Projects Ltd.
Axis Aquaculture
Developments
Ltd
The Axis Tension Leg Buoy (TLB)
We have two patents pending, a third one in progress and
we own copyright in related designs dating back to 1999.

2. Management Team, Advisors & Development Partners
John Baross - CEO Axis Energy Projects Group MSc FCMI
Peter Jay - TA Moorings CEng BSc (Hons)
Ebrahim Abolfathi - TA Structural Engineering BSc MSc PhD
Patent Attorneys
HGF Aberdeen
We are partnered in the development with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and University of Strathclyde
and supported by Scottish Enterprise.
Strathclyde have been engaged in hydrodynamic analyses on our behalf and they have confirmed the stability of our
system during installation and in operation.

3. The Opportunity
Floating wind is an emerging market worldwide.
If the full potential of offshore wind energy is to be realised then floating solutions will be required.
All Energy Conference 2015 -Johanna Yates Scottish Enterprise

4. Competitor Analysis
There are a number of companies engaged in floating wind developments,
mostly offering catenary moored solutions depicted in the photographs at the
top of the next slide. These solutions rely on floating buoyant structures to
provide turbine stability. They require a lot of steel and they are subject to
movement in all six degrees of freedom.
Fewer companies are engaged in tension leg technology solutions, depicted in
the lower part of the slide, where turbine stability is provided by the mooring.
Our solution, rooted in experience from past projects, comprises a proprietary
modular gravity anchor, tensioned tendons, a buoyancy table and a negatively
buoyant central column and we are certain that it provides competitive
advantages over other tension leg solutions.

5. Competitor Analysis

6. The Axis Energy TLB Floating Wind Solution
The development is rooted in the technology developed on past
projects.
The anchor, TRL9, can accommodate all of the mooring loads and it can
be installed without the need of an expensive heavy lift vessel.
Stability of the turbine during all phases of installation is provided by a
reusable, ballastable, installation frame.
The slender, negatively buoyant, flooding central column not only
reduces the mooring loads from metocean effects, it minimises tension
fluctuations and peak tensions arising from wave action thus reducing
the cost of tendons and the size of the anchor.
Instead, wave action causes water to rise and fall in the column
compressing and decompressing the air inside damping the system and
creating an oscillating water column. It would be easy to install a
suitable wave energy converter.

7. The Axis Energy TLB Floating Wind Solution

8. TLB Static Offsets
Surge (m) Sway (m) Heave (m) Pitch (deg) Roll (deg) Yaw (deg)
7.45 0.00 -0.32 0.08 0.00 0.00
Conclusion from UoS investigation
Based on the current numerical simulation, the designed TLB with 10MW wind turbine can be
installed in UK Block 9/11A field. Thus, this system can be further applied to any potential site for
offshore wind farm development in the North Sea region.
The flooded central column has a significant better surge & heave response compared with the non-
flood central column. Further use of the flooded central column has been discussed. The flooded
central column can be potentially applied with the oscillating water column technology which can be
further developed as a wave energy convertor.
The Axis Energy TLB Floating Wind Solution
Block 9 - 100 Year Storm Conditions
Water Depth 115.3 m
Hs 13.2 m
Hmax 24.2 m
Current 1.38 m/s
Design Turbine:
10MW - height over 200m, total weight of 1,300 te
LCOE is reduced by minimising the cost of the system and its installation and maximising electricity generation capacity
given the system’s ability to support large turbines and provide combined power.

9. Gode wind/ Nordsee has a three conventional wind farms, total of 151 6MW turbines, tied back to the Dolwin Beta converter platform with a HVDC cable to shore and beyond.
We can replicate this type of development and deploy hundreds of turbines in any ‘optimum wind’ location in the North Sea.
We can potentially reuse oil & gas platforms as converter platforms avoiding the cost of their decommissioning and reducing the converter platform cost.
The HVDC cable could be routed to Boddam (near Peterhead) such that the UK grid can be accessed and also the planned 400-mile subsea power cable linking Scotland and Norway – for
power storage or onward distribution to Europe.
The Business Case
Other markets include:
• Japan
• China,
• Taiwan
• USA
• France Portugal

10. The Business Model & Financial Plan
Business model(s)
Development partner
Potential customers
Financial plan
We have had six bright MBA students from Aberdeen University working on business models and looking into
sources funding so we have a lot of information.
We are seeking a development partner with the vision and resources to deliver our systems potential

11. The Investment Need
Timeline:
• Concept engineering – complete
• Front end engineering design – ongoing with completion end April. Concept feasibility confirmed January 2018
• Model tests – 2018 subject to grant award - .
• Demonstrator planning and detailed engineering - 2018/2019
• Potential demonstrator deployment - Q3 2019
Investment is required to:
• Complete the engineering program;
• Provide a management team for Axis Energy TLB including MD;
• Planning and grant applications for demonstrator;
• PR & marketing.
We are seeking an inward investment of around £1 million
to finance the engineering program, to plan for a
demonstrator and to hire a managing director and small
team to drive the development forward.
We are looking for help with a demonstrator site and
turbine.
We are interested in speaking with companies with
applicable WEC technology.
We predict by the time the floating wind market is mature the default mooring will be tension leg with combined power systems.