FLOATING WIND POWER RAMPS-UP AS DEVELOPER PONDER REDUCING COSTS
March 1st, 2021
Oil companies decarbonising their portfolios are getting out their cheque books for floating offshore wind projects.
Bottom-fixed offshore wind farms familiar in some places worldwide are generally limited to water no more than about 60 metres deep. Beyond that, it becomes economically unfeasible to connect the increasingly large turbine assemblies to the seafloor by either monopile or jacket foundations. Unfortunately, wind is generally more consistent over sea than land, and even more so the further out you go. But further out usually means deeper water, while ...
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