MARLIN Modular Floating Platform for OffShore Wind: Concept Assessment
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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 this sector even in developed countries. In developing countries the resource has remained entirely
unexploited. Project MARLIN aims to test feasibility of a new cost-effective universal concept of modular
construction of floating platforms for offshore wind. Using the concept of compact easily transportable
modules as building blocks, the MARLIN team will design, construct and test models and prototypes of
structures that will be capable of supporting wind turbines in all weathers in most of the coastal regions of the
world. The modular floating platform technology will be developed for commercial exploitation and will form
the basis of a new UK-based business. Beyond contributing to carbon targets the outcomes of the project could
have transformative economic effects on coastal communities across the world.
| FRONTIER TECHNICAL LTD | LEAD_ORG |
| UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND ENTERPRISES LIMITED | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| PDL SOLUTIONS (EUROPE) LIMITED | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| FRONTIER TECHNICAL LTD | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| HOWELL MARINE CONSULTING LTD | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Trevor Hardcastle | PM_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Wind energy
- Enterprises
- Renewable energy sources
- Developing countries
- Objectives
- Modularity
Extracted key phrases
- MARLIN Modular Floating Platform
- Project MARLIN
- MARLIN team
- Offshore wind
- Massive renewable energy resource ready
- Concept Assessment
- Wind turbine
- Carbon reduction target
- Effective universal concept
- New cost
- Carbon target
- Deep water
- Platform technology
- Test model
- Prohibitive cost