Floating offshore wind

Clean energy generating turbines designed to float in the deep sea, anchored to the sea floor, and harvest wind power.

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Seatower's game-changing wind turbine foundations could reduce the cost of offshore wind farming

Offshore wind generation is extremely effective, but it's also very expensive to anchor wind turbines to the sea bed using current technology. Seatower's very clever base platform is significantly cheaper and easier to fix to the ocean floor. It could make offshore wind power much more affordable.
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SeaTwirl puts a new spin on offshore wind turbines

The SeaTwirl is a proposed offshore wind power-harvesting system, that stores kinetic energy using a flywheel-like principle.
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HyWind - world's first floating wind turbine reaches its final destination

The world’s first full-scale floating offshore wind turbine has been installed and moored to the seabed off the coast of Norway ahead of a two year pilot designed to perfect the technology.
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StatoilHydro to build 2.3MW offshore floating wind turbine

StatoilHydro plans to invest around US$80 million to build a full scale offshore wind turbine using a floating concrete construction similar to those found in oil installations.