At 1:8th the scale of a commercial installation, this project will collect data to validate and improve floating wind turbine designs, while helping to address technical barriers to greater offshore wind cost reductions. Water depth is about 100-feet (24.4-meters).
The design uses advanced materials that help reduce the overall cost of the system while ensuring high performance and efficiency. Among other things, it features a unique semi-submersible platform that uses a lower cost concrete foundation in addition to a lighter weight composite tower.
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