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Abstract:

ETI’s Strategy Manager Stuart Bradley presents “Offshore Wind - Floating Turbines” at the BIS Group Offshore Wind Operations and Maintenance Forum 2016. The slide set covers:<ul><li>Introduction to ETI and ESME, ETI’s modelling tool integrating power, heat, transport and infrastructure providing national / regional system designs</li><li>Energy System Scenarios</li><li>Offshore Wind</li><li>Water Depth</li><li>Wind Resource and Water Depth Compared</li><li>Offshore Wind Turbines</li><li>What do we use for Offshore Wind today?</li><li>Foundation Types</li><li>Floating Wind<ul><li>Tension Leg Platform</li><li>Engineering Design</li><li>Cost Study - CAPEX</li><li>LCoE Forecast</li></ul></li><li>Conclusions<ul><li>Offshore Wind has a significant role to play in the UK 2050 energy mix</li><li>With a range of Fixed and Floating foundations, UK can optimise the offshorefleet LCoE</li><li>Floating Wind has potential to deliver costs at less than £85/MWh from mid-2020s, and further significant cost reduction afterwards</li><li>Further Work<ul><li>Demonstration at full-scale</li><li>Geographical distribution and cost optimisation</li><li>Establish cost of energy potential for other floating technologies</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

Publication Year:

2016

Publisher:

ETI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5286/ukerc.edc.000567

Author(s):

Bradley, S.

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Renewable Energy Sources

Wind Energy

Language:

English

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United Kingdom

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Presentation

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Energy Generation Plants

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Offshore Wind

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