Full Title: Climate-Tech to Watch: Floating Wind Farms
Author(s): Linh Nguyen
Publisher(s): Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
Publication Date: August 16, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
Floating offshore wind farms should be the next big thing in the wind industry. But catalyzing greater private investment and reducing costs will require large-scale demonstration to increase confidence from investors that the technology works as intended.
A floating wind farm is exactly what it sounds like—an array of wind turbines on floating platforms instead of fixed foundations rooted to the seabed. Each floating platform is tethered to the seabed with mooring lines and anchors that prevent it from drifting off. Floating wind turbines are important because they can be installed in deep waters where much of the world’s wind energy lies.