Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence launches new strategic programme

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The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOW CoE) has launched its fourth key strategic programme this week – focused on reducing risk and costs associated with floating offshore wind, and supporting supply chain growth in construction, operations and maintenance.

The new strategic programme, ‘Construction, Operations and Maintenance’, builds on previous work delivered by the FOW CoE relating to other key areas such as dynamic inter-array cables, environmental interaction, and mooring and anchoring systems. These programmes reflect the swift movement of floating offshore wind into an industrialisation phase, where challenges remain on how best to scale up manufacturing, assembly and construction, while simultaneously... ... More: Official Press Release ORE Catapult

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