First industrialised offshore wind foundation.

[Stan]

This is now in service with a 3.6MWp wind turbine atop, in 200m depth of water off Norway. At first I had difficulty believing that the buoyancy of those tubes would be adequate.

https://www.stiesdal.com/offshore-techn ... n-project/

[dan_b]

My broadband is blocking that URL for security reasons! Is it legitimate?

[Stan]

It’s released by Stiesdal.com Dan and looks very legitimate.

[AE-NMidlands]

Firefox and Avast allow it.
Looks good to me: fully re-useable - and then recyclable.
Pity they can't find a safe way of re-using oil rigs....

[nowty]

So its a tethered floating one for deep water areas.

Do we know whether the cost is similar to a conventional one in shallow water like the north sea ?

[Stan]

In a word no but that is what this prototype is about. Stiesdal’s early drawings for a floater have moved on. However, all the way he has tried to use off-the-shelf stock to keep down cost. The huge advantage of the floater is in being able to assemble on shore and tow onto site with a drawback of having to attach to the seabed in deep water.
France has been testing a floater for some time but it looks expensive when compared with this.

[dan_b]

Isn't there a floating offshore wind farm around Scotland somewhere?

[Joeboy]

Isn't there a floating offshore wind farm around Scotland somewhere?

Maybe this Dan?
https://scotwind.energy/?gclid=EAIaIQob ... gIgLvD_BwE

[Fintray]

There is more than one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywind_Scotland
https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/10/ ... ands-grid/