Denmark-based NKT has joined the TAILWIND project, an academic and business collaboration launched last month, that aims at advancing station-keeping technologies to maintain the position of floating offshore wind farms.
The company says it was invited to join the consortium due to its experience with dynamic cables, which will be included with the mooring technologies and platform designs developed by TAILWIND.
“I am proud that NKT is part of the TAILWIND project,” says Anders Jensen, CTO of NKT. “Advancing the development of floating offshore wind is a very important next step in the green transition. It will require technological advancements from all stakeholders, including power cables. We believe our dynamic cables will play an important role here and look forward to them integrating into the other new technologies that are being developed for floating wind in this project.”
The TAILWIND consortium is composed by: NGI, TU Delft, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, SINTEF Ocean, Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Nautilus Floating Solutions, Bekaert Wire Rope Industry, Subsea 7 Norway, Fondazione ICONS, Clarke Modet Y Compania S.L., NKT Cables Group, Bridon International and University of Southampton.
The project is funded by the EU’s Horizon program.
