But the go-to foundation for offshore wind turbines over the past 20 years, the monopile, is not being left in the shallows.
Designers such as Denmark’s MT Højgaard are now stretching and streamlining conventional monopiles to shoulder the next generation of supersize turbines in water depths out to some 35 metres.
Historically, monopiles have been restricted to waters of 30 metres or less.
