3/28/2024 0 Comments Wind turbine floating foundation![]() ![]() ![]() Alastair Dutton is chair of the Global Wind Energy Council global offshore wind taskforce and lead consultant to the World Bank’s offshore wind programme. Other countries around the world are also seeking to exploit wind resources in deep waters, but the UK is the first to set a hard target. “We will not only build fixed arrays in the sea we will build windmills that float on the sea – enough to deliver one gigawatt of energy by 2030, fifteen times as much as the rest of the world put together.” “We believe that in ten years-time offshore wind will be powering every home in the country, with our target rising from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts,” Johnson told the Conservative Party Conference in October 2020. No-one seems more excited than UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Floating offshore turbines are entering commercial production and opening up vast swathes of ocean, where the seabed is deep and the wind resources are powerful, to generate low carbon energy. But in just a few years the game has changed. Only those with shallow waters of around 40m or less could implement fixed offshore arrays. Until a few years ago the offshore wind industry was constrained by the seabed characteristics of countries seeking to harness the generating capacity of the wind. ![]()
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