Floating offshore wind farm installation, challenges and opportunities: A comprehensive survey

• DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117793
• Publication Date: 2024-04-20T03:27:18Z
• Authors: Sunghun Hong; Jade McMorland; Houxiang Zhang; Maurizio Collu; Karl Henning Halse

The deployment of floating offshore wind farms marks a pivotal step in unlocking the vast potential energy and propelling world towards sustainable solutions. Despite compelling prospects technology, its implementation is challenging. Complex installation procedures, associated high costs, evolving regulations can hinder widespread adoption. However, these challenges present opportunities for innovation cost reduction. This paper delves into technical, operational, economic aspects farm installation, providing comprehensive overview current state-of-the-art. analysis goes beyond simply describing landscape by critically examining complexities involved installation. It identifies critical research areas advancing technology broader adoption greater efficiency. findings underscore need standardised foundation designs, advanced methods, robust collaboration between academia industry. By fostering such collaboration, example, creating consortiums or knowledge-sharing platforms, industry accelerate advancements unlock full as clean source.