Last year, the UK Energy Technology Institute announced plans for a floating wind demonstration project to confirming feasibility and reducing generation cost.
Now the ETI has announced that they are investigating if the test system could be deployed at the WaveHub site in Cornwall. Results should be available “before the summer”.
In their own words, the idea would be to operate the system “for at least two years to show it can generate high levels of electricity, be maintained without using specially designed vessels and to verify the predicted technical and economic performance”.
Design, construction and installation should be completed by 2016.
References:
http://www.eti.co.uk/news/article/eti_to_explore_testing_offshore_floating_wind_platform_at_wave_hub
http://www.eti.co.uk/news/article/investment_in_offshore_wind_opportunities
