Discussions are being held with a Dutch developer and Scotland’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre to build a first full-scale unit for testing in UK waters.

The all-in-one “braced monopod” concept is turbine-agnostic. It is designed to make it possible to crane-assemble and commission a turbine’s rotor, nacelle, tower and substructure at port before fixing it to the corner of a cargo barge.

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