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Offshore Wind Energy: Growth & Challenges

Offshore wind energy is a promising source of clean energy that is gaining traction as technology advances, although it still lags behind onshore wind. The development of offshore wind faces technical challenges due to the complexity of turbine design and construction, necessitating ongoing research. Additionally, offshore wind is currently more expensive than onshore wind, with significant cost implications for turbines and infrastructure, and foundations must be engineered to withstand harsh marine conditions.

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Offshore Wind Energy: Growth & Challenges

Offshore wind energy is a promising source of clean energy that is gaining traction as technology advances, although it still lags behind onshore wind. The development of offshore wind faces technical challenges due to the complexity of turbine design and construction, necessitating ongoing research. Additionally, offshore wind is currently more expensive than onshore wind, with significant cost implications for turbines and infrastructure, and foundations must be engineered to withstand harsh marine conditions.

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For the overall importance and growth of offshore wind energy:

"Offshore wind is a source of clean, renewable energy of great potential value to


the power industry in the context of a low carbon society."

"Renewable energy has become increasingly important over recent decades as a means
of achieving international targets for reduced greenhouse gas emissions while
ensuring energy security."

"Although some way behind onshore wind, it can be seen that offshore wind energy
production has started to accelerate."

"Offshore wind farms are gradually beginning to flourish as offshore wind energy
technology matures."

For the general technical challenges in offshore wind development:

"Rapid development of offshore wind energy depends on a good understanding of


technical issues related to offshore wind turbines, which is spurring ongoing
research and development programmes."

"Offshore wind production is much more complicated than onshore in terms of design
of the wind turbine system and construction of the wind farm ."

For the cost implications in offshore wind:

"From the point of view of investment per megawatt (MW), offshore wind is still
some 50% more expensive than onshore wind."

"Typically, offshore wind turbines are 20% more expensive, and towers and
foundations 350% more costly than similar onshore counterparts ."

"For bottom-fixed offshore wind platforms, the turbine is the most expensive item,
contributing about 31.8% to the overall cost..."

For the demanding environmental conditions of offshore sites:

"The foundations of offshore wind farms are subject to a complex combination of


loadings, including the axial force from the turbine support structure and cyclic
loads from extreme sea states."

"Such foundations must be designed to resist very large numbers of wind and
hydrodynamic load cycles of varying direction, amplitude, and frequency that occur
over a project's typical design life of 25 years or so .

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