![The world's second full-scale floating wind turbine (and first to be installed without the use of heavy-lift vessels), WindFloat, operating at rated capacity (2 MW) approximately 5 km offshore of Aguçadoura, Portugal [Credit: "Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype" by Untrakdrover - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype / commons.wikimedia.org (Untrakdrover 2012)] Click to Enlarge.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaW24rwhITdkfTVA9rckoMzCu3tipSbBwLcGWWTG7f0zhxIEdbl8oXqV-eMqe3Zqz6KNoW6Gw32Tj3UqSbAdK6oDSK3MYwPJlAdi9ry7Ta0THaUX8iycTj6LlAOXBce3Bp9irxWIKfhsd/s1600/1024px-Agucadoura_WindFloat_Prototype.jpg "The world's second full-scale floating wind turbine (and first to be installed without the use of heavy-lift vessels), WindFloat, operating at rated capacity (2 MW) approximately 5 km offshore of Aguçadoura, Portugal [Credit: \"Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype\" by Untrakdrover - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype / commons.wikimedia.org (Untrakdrover 2012)] Click to Enlarge.")
French environment agency ADEME on Wednesday posted a tender document inviting companies to submit proposals to build floating wind farms with between three to six turbines each, with a capacity of at least 5 megawatts per turbine in three sites in the Mediterranean and one site off southern Brittany.
Portugal and Norway have pioneered the new technology in the past few years with a single floating turbine each, and Portugal plans to build a 25 MW floating wind demonstration farm, but the French project will be the first to test floating offshore wind on a large scale.
Floating turbines are built for waters deeper than the roughly 50 meters (54.7 yds) maximum for foundation-based turbines and offer huge potential as they are not limited to shallow coasts.
Bidders for the French pilots will have to propose how much capacity they want to build and will have to specify which feed-in tariff they want to get for the electricity produced and how much financial support they need.
The government has made 150 million euros ($163.53 million) available, one third as investment subsidies, two thirds as a loan.
Read more at France Launches Tender for Floating Offshore Wind Projects
No comments:
Post a Comment