STARFLOAT - multifloat-spar for enabling the economic exploitation of deep water wind
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Floating foundations for offshore wind turbines will allow wind farms to be built further offshore in the deeper
water that exists around the Atlantic Margins of the UK, Europe and southern Africa. For this market to be
realised innovative floating foundation solutions are required to arrive at costs of energy that are competitive
or can better the economics of nearshore wind farms that employ fixed foundations. The Starfloat solution
proposed by Oceanflow Energy involves a novel multifloat-spar structure employing an innovative cost cutting
build, assembly and deployment process to allow the economic exploitation of deeper water wind farm sites. In
many parts of the world and particularly off the south west coast of Africa scarcity of fresh water is a threat to
the existence of communities and an obstacle to their economic development. Placing reverse osmosis fresh
water generating plant offshore powered by electricity from wind energy could displace expensive diesel driven
RO plant. This feasibility study is to demonstrate the viability of the platform technology for economic
electricity production and fresh water generation depending upon the needs of the community.
| Ocean Flow Energy Ltd | LEAD_ORG |
| Stellenbosch University | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Ocean Flow Energy Ltd | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Graeme Mackie | PM_PER |
| Graeme Mackie | PM_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Wind energy
- Wind farms
- Renewable energy sources
- Water
- Costs
- Farms
- Africa
- Wind power stations
- Hydraulic turbines
- Innovations
Extracted key phrases
- Deep water wind farm site
- Offshore wind turbine
- Nearshore wind farm
- Economic exploitation
- Fresh water generation
- Wind energy
- Economic development
- Novel multifloat
- Spar structure
- STARFLOAT
- Innovative cost cutting
- Foundation solution
- Reverse osmosis fresh
- Starfloat solution
- Oceanflow Energy