Significant research efforts are now being directed at floating offshore wind turbines. The main challenge posed by floating wind turbines is the high construction and installation costs of the substructure, which make it too expensive for commercial exploitation in the … Read More
With floating platforms, offshore wind cost set to plunge
Floating wind turbines offer huge falls in the cost of offshore wind power and could be generating power in UK waters at well under the cost of new nuclear by 2020, provided adequate support. Source: http://www.theecologist.org/
A Monolithic Concrete Platform for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
A novel concept of a floating platform for supporting wind turbines (named WindCrete) has been developed at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in order to substantially reduce the capital expenditure or CAPEX for floating offshore wind turbines. The concept … Read More
