'It's not going to work' | innovative thinking offers routes for floating wind to hurdle O&M obstacles

ANALYSIS | Maintenance operations at two pioneering projects in Scottish waters have highlighted concerns about the problems that serial equipment failures can pose for a fledgling floating wind industry, but there are plenty of initiatives to suggest that solutions are on the way.

Hywind Scotland, with its five 6MW Siemens Gamesa floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), was celebrated as the world’s first commercial floating wind farm when it started up in 2017.