Sustainability and reuse are important elements of our renewable energy strategy, with great potential for innovation and improvement. The industry lacks extensive experience in decommissioning and recycling large-scale floating offshore wind farms.
Although progress has been made in the reuse and recycling of wind turbine blades, there are still gaps in the reuse and recycling of floating offshore wind substructures.
Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm 172 MW wind farm located 7 km off Clacton-on-Sea and the Holland Essex coast, in the North Thames Estuary. Image credit: Ashley Dace via geograph.org.ukCC BY-SA 2.0
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The Seeker needs innovative solutions to manage the end-of-life phase of floating offshore wind substructures – in steel and concrete. It is important to focus on reuse, life after death, circularity and recycling from the start to adjust and optimize the design. A scheduled Q&A session will present a case example to all challenge applicants.
The Seeker invites you to bring your expertise and innovative ideas to help us meet this challenge and advance the sustainability of the offshore wind industry.
About the researcher
Equinor has a long history in the energy sector, with 50 years of experience in oil and gas and over 20 years in offshore wind. This unique combination of expertise makes Equinor a leader in the development and operation of offshore wind projects. Our floating wind projects include Hywind Demo, Hywind Scotland and the latest, Hywind Tampen. Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating wind farm, supplies electricity to oil and gas installations, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 200,000 tonnes per year.
Equinor aims to become the leading industrial player in offshore wind in Norway, and we hope that floating wind will play a central role in the development of the sector. Floating wind is ready for industrialization and we see huge potential in Norway.
Entries for this challenge must be received by 2:00 p.m. EDT, August 26, 2024.
Source: Wazoku
Originally published in The European Times.
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