Resurgent US floating wind designer Glosten has developed an innovative deep-water assembly and installation method with European vessel operator DEME-GeoSea that it says will mean its PelaStar tension leg platform (TLP) concept can be deployed at “cost parity” with current methods for bottom-fixed turbines.
The new technique — which will use DEME-GeoSea’s next-generation Orion installation ship, on track to be launched in 2019 — involves quicker quayside assembly and “minimal” time at sea.
