Project overview:

Shared Mooring Systems for Deep-Water Floating Wind Farms

Awardee:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Start Date:

Q2, 2020

Technical Challenge Area:

Floating Structure Engineering

Completion Date:

Q1, 2022

Synopsis:

The aim of this project was to investigate the feasibility of using shared moorings in a floating wind farm to reduce overall stationkeeping system material and installation costs, hence lowering the LCOE of wind farms in deep waters.

Target Outcomes:

The objectives of this project are to develop a shared mooring floating wind farm design;

improve simulation tools to enable loads analysis of such a farm;

and conduct analyses to compare the performance and cost of the shared mooring farm with those of a conventional individually moored farm.

The goal is to demonstrate significant cost reduction opportunities and provide the industry with design tools that can be used to pursue these cost reductions commercially.