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A review of the technical challenges faced in floating offshore wind turbine deployment
Summary
This review examines technical challenges in floating offshore wind turbine deployment, covering mooring systems, dynamic cable design, and structural loading, and identifying key engineering barriers to commercial-scale offshore wind expansion.
The cost-effective deployment of floating offshore wind turbines is faced with a multitude of technical challenges. Several key areas of the life-cycle of floating offshore wind turbines have been discussed within this work. The key challenges and potential solutions have been presented, with state-of-the-art literature summarised to enable further work to build off. It is concluded that all areas of the use of this technology requires further maturing to de-risk this technology to entice wide-spread commercial use.
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