The storming progress of Britain’s offshore wind industry is set to create an “explosion of innovation” in the coming decades, with floating arrays becoming a go-to design by the end of the next decade, with vertical-axis turbines, multi-rotored designs and high-altitude power kites — all serviced by AI-powered drones and underwater robots — taking up prominent places in the planet’s seascapes.
What's next for offshore wind?
IN DEPTH | Floating wind arrays, drones and power-kites will soon be the ‘norm’ offshore — and that’s just the beginning, writes Darius Snieckus
8 March 2018 8:53 GMT
Updated
8 March 2018 9:07 GMT
By