The floating wind power industry could surely stake a claim as one of the world’s most innovative industrial sectors, with plenty of evidence to back that up on the Recharge website this week. First there was an exclusive insight into plans by US start-up T-Omega Wind to “democratise floating wind” with its weathervaning concept that has been engineered “from the water up”. Recharge also brought news of how floating development pioneer Simply Blue plans to bid into Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil & Gas (INTOG) leasing round with a new-look floating platform designed by Marine Power Systems. Still in Scotland, the pioneering Salamander floating wind project, being developed by Orsted with Simply Blue and offshore oil contractor Subsea7, tapped Ocergy for lead-off engineering on foundation design for the 100MW “stepping-stone” project. Oil & gas decarbonisation…
Floating’s big time rush, Rishi’s winds of change and energy storage straight-talk
