The UK’s renewable energy sector is well placed to take advantage of the expected boom in floating offshore wind technology, a new study suggests.
Writing in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews journal, researchers from the University of Plymouth highlight that huge advances in platform technology have taken place over the past two decades.
This has led to a shift from early designs, which reflected those used in the oil and gas industry and focused predominantly on platform stability, to more specialized designs introduced in significant part driven by the need to reduce costs.
