MARLIN Modular Floating Platform for OffShore Wind: Concept Assessment

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Title
MARLIN Modular Floating Platform for OffShore Wind: Concept Assessment
CoPED ID
b73db5d2-878a-4f07-8130-5ad3b6605814
Status
Closed
Funders
Innovate UK
Innovate UK
Value
£225,672
Start Date
Feb. 1, 2017
End Date
Oct. 31, 2017
Description

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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.

Subjects by relevance
  1. Wind energy
  2. Renewable energy sources
  3. Developing countries
  4. Modularity
  5. Enterprises
  6. Carbon
  7. Wind power stations

Extracted key phrases
  1. MARLIN Modular
  2. Project MARLIN
  3. MARLIN team
  4. Offshore wind
  5. Massive renewable energy resource ready
  6. Concept Assessment
  7. Wind turbine
  8. Carbon reduction target
  9. Effective universal concept
  10. New cost
  11. Carbon target
  12. Deep water
  13. Platform technology
  14. Test model
  15. Prohibitive cost

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