Future Wind Turbines go Offshore – Deep and Floating (Denmark)

Future Wind Turbines go Offshore – Deep and Floating (Denmark)
Posted on Nov 11th, 2010 with tags deep, Denmark, europe, floating, future, News by topic, offshore, turbines, wind.

Floating wind turbines producing at least 20 MW each: this is the vision that is to be explored in an exciting new collaboration between DTU and international partners from both industry and the research community. The 4-year project called DeepWind has a €3m grant under the European FP7 programme for future emerging technologies.

DeepWind was launched October 1st 2010, and Risø DTU is coordinating the consortium of 12 international members.

“Our objective is to develop more cost-effective MW wind turbines through dedicated technology rather than advancing existing concepts that are based on onshore technology being transported to the sea environment. Offshore wind energy today is twice as expensive as onshore technologies. That means that there is plenty of room for improvement,” says DeepWind Project Manager Uwe Schmidt Paulsen, Risø DTU.

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