Wake steering – a technique of manoeuvring turbines into the prevailing wind-stream to increase power capture – will be studied by a international industry group with a view to further reducing deepwater projects’ levellised cost of energy (LCOE) as the sector moves into fully fledged industrialisation.

The R&D project, set to run to March 2023, aims to provide the “industry’s first comprehensive overview of the effects of the use of wake steering...