Plans are ongoing to invest around £31.6 million on eleven projects centered around the floating wind technology in UK along the most of its windy coastlines. Additionally, over £30 million of cash is anticipated to come from private investment. The government revealed on a statement that the money is meant to develop modern technologies able to enable turbines on windiest regions of the coastline.” Incorporating various technologies, the floating wind technology in UK project will be all over the region. One, from Marine Power Systems, will secure a little over £3.4 million and focus on the floating foundation project of a with an integrated wave energy generator.
Another initiative comprising of SSE Renewables, Bridon Bekaert Ropes Group, Maersk Supply Service Subsea and Copenhagen Offshore Partners will get over £9.6 million for developing and demonstrating technologies on modern mooring system, floating turbine base design, cable protection and an advanced digital monitoring system. Another scheme seeking to combine a compact floating foundation with an anchoring system will get £10 million of investment. It will also deploy the monitoring tech which will assist operators to plan and undertake maintenance offshore, “reducing on costs of towing back to shore.”
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The floating wind technology will enhance energy capacity.
The difference between the floating offshore wind turbines and bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines is that the floating is embedded to the seabed. The floating turbines are superior to bottom-fixed ones because they can be fixed in deeper waters. The floating turbines are portrayed by RWE as being “used on top of floating compositions that are fixed to the seabed with mooring lines and anchors.” Playing its part, the government of U.K revealed that floating turbines would “enhance energy capacity much further by allowing wind farms to be located in new regions around the UK coastline where there is greater wind strengths which brings much productivity.”
