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What are the cost reduction pathways for floating offshore wind and what the potential step change innovation solutions to facilitate this?

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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  • TLPWIND UK: "Driving the cost down of offshore wind in UK Waters"

    The UK is currently leading the offshore wind (OW) market worldwide. There is a clear need for developing new technologies that will help cut our electricity bills whilst building a UK manufacturing industry. Iberdrola h...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: IBERDROLA ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION UK LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to adapt the TLPWIND concept to UK site conditions and help reduce overall LCOE, which directly addresses the question of cost reduction pathways for floating offshore wind.

  • Stinger Keel Floating Wind Turbine Foundation UK Concept Development

    In 2009, wind turbines supplied 2% of the UK's electrical demand \[1\]. By 2019, this had risen to 20% \[2\]. The UK government is committed to quadruple offshore wind capacity over the next ten years to achieve a total ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FLOATING ENERGY SYSTEMS LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is developing the Stinger Keel Foundation Concept for floating offshore wind, which directly addresses the question of potential step change innovation solutions to facilitate cost reduction.

  • MPS Pelaflex floating wind platform optimization for southwest Wales supply chain delivery

    With governments across the world committing to environmental targets, global installed offshore wind capacity is expected to reach 630GW by 2050 (McKinsey & Company). An estimated 80% of global offshore wind resourc...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MARINE POWER SYSTEMS LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses cost reduction pathways for floating offshore wind and potential step change innovation solutions, with expertise from relevant stakeholders.

  • Use of a Low Motion Floating Platform as a Wind Turbine Foundation

    This project looks at the feasibility of developing an innovative low motion, low cost floating platform as an offshore wind foundation in an effort to reduce the cost of energy associated with offshore wind farms in bot...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MOJO MARITIME LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project looks at the feasibility of developing a low motion, low cost floating platform as an offshore wind foundation, which partially addresses the question of cost reduction pathways for floating offshore wind.

  • MARLIN Modular Floating Platform for OffShore Wind: Concept Assessment

    Floating offshore wind in deep waters is a massive renewable energy resource ready to be tapped into to achieve carbon reduction targets. Prohibitive costs and advanced infrastructure requirement have limited growth of...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FRONTIER TECHNICAL LTD

  • BLOW : Black sea fLoating Offshore Wind

    Let’s harness the floating offshore wind energy potential of the Black Sea, let the wind BLOW. Offshore wind is currently one of the most cost-efficient, clean and scalable power sources. As of today, offshore wind farms...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON

  • Market Uptake Measures of Floating Offshore Wind Technology Systems (FOWTs)

    MARINEWIND is a 36-month (Nov-22 to Oct-25) Horizon Europe coordination and support action that will identify bottlenecks and potential opportunities to strengthen floating offshore wind technologies (FOWT) role in deliv...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: ENERGY SYSTEMS CATAPULT LIMITED

  • The Drop Keel Concept: an Assembly Focused Solution to Commercial Deep Water Floating Wind Turbine Development

    Wind is proving to be a commercially viable source for generating electrical power. The UK is exploiting this opportunity with its consistent wind resource using wind turbines fixed to the seabed along its coastline up t...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FLOATING ENERGY SYSTEMS LIMITED

  • TAILWIND

    To meet EU net zero targets requires a six times increase in offshore wind deployment rate, primarily in deep seas where floating offshore wind (FOW) is needed. To achieve this growth requires FOW to be economic, sustain...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

  • MARLIN Modular Floating Platform for Offshore Wind : Concept Assessment

    Project MARLIN will assess and develop a new concept for a modular floating platform system for offshore wind. The project will confirm technical and commercial feasibility of the novel method of construction and deploym...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde