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Engineering Challenges for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

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OSTI ID:917212

The major objective of this paper is to survey the technical challenges that must be overcome to develop deepwater offshore wind energy technologies and to provide a framework from which the first-order economics can be assessed.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-99GO10337
OSTI ID:
917212
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-500-38776
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English