Bekaert has joined TAILWIND Project to develop floating offshore wind (FOW) mooring solutions, which the company says will embrace sustainable principles to deliver station-keeping technologies.
The project, launched in January, is expected to deliver solutions designed to maintain the position of FOW farms via mooring lines and anchoring systems.
“I am very pleased that Bekaert is involved in the TAILWIND project that will further enable the growth of floating offshore wind which plays an important role in accelerating the generation of clean, sustainable energy,” says Christof Dewijngaert, a Bekaert general manager. “With our track record in mooring systems for offshore oil and gas, we are committed to contributing to enabling the scale-up of more optimal station-keeping concepts and systems for floating offshore wind.”
The project also hopes to reduce the levelized cost of electricity produced by FOW farms through mooring and anchoring efficiency solutions, as well as avoid bottlenecks and major dependency on the supply chain.
The TAILWIND consortium is composed of: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Technische Universiteit Delft in Netherlands, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet in Denmark, SINTEF Ocean AS in Norway, Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation in Spain, Nautilus Floating Solutions also in Spain, Bekaert in Belgium, Subsea 7 Norway AS in Norway, Fondazione ICONS in Italy, Clarke Modet Y Compania in Spain, NKT Cables Group in Denmark and University of Southampton in the U.K.
The project is funded by the EU Horizon Program.
