Bekaert has joined TAILWIND Undertaking to develop floating offshore wind (FOW) mooring options, which the corporate says will embrace sustainable ideas to ship station-keeping applied sciences.
The challenge, launched in January, is anticipated to ship options designed to take care of the place of FOW farms by way of mooring strains and anchoring methods.
“I’m very happy that Bekaert is concerned within the TAILWIND challenge that may additional allow the expansion of floating offshore wind which performs an necessary position in accelerating the technology of fresh, sustainable power,” says Christof Dewijngaert, a Bekaert common supervisor. “With our observe report in mooring methods for offshore oil and gasoline, we’re dedicated to contributing to enabling the scale-up of extra optimum station-keeping ideas and methods for floating offshore wind.”
The challenge additionally hopes to cut back the levelized value of electrical energy produced by FOW farms by mooring and anchoring effectivity options, in addition to keep away from bottlenecks and main dependency on the availability chain.
The TAILWIND consortium consists of: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Technische Universiteit Delft in Netherlands, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet in Denmark, SINTEF Ocean AS in Norway, Fundación Tecnalia Analysis & Innovation in Spain, Nautilus Floating Options additionally in Spain, Bekaert in Belgium, Subsea 7 Norway AS in Norway, Fondazione ICONS in Italy, Clarke Modet Y Compania in Spain, NKT Cables Group in Denmark and College of Southampton within the U.Okay.
The challenge is funded by the EU Horizon Program.
