{"id":42586,"date":"2023-02-10T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T19:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=42586"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T19:50:42","slug":"floating-multi-turbine-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=42586","title":{"rendered":"This giant floating multi-turbine offshore wind pilot just got more money"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wind turbines usually consist of one turbine with a set of blades, but Norway\u2019s Wind Catching Systems<\/a> thinks its floating multi-turbine offshore wind technology will make clean energy more efficiently.<\/p>\n

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Floating multi-turbine offshore wind<\/h2>\n

The 320-meter-tall (1,050-foot-high) unit \u2013 that\u2019s just 33 feet shorter than the Eiffel Tower<\/a> \u2013 is made up of a matrix of beams that supports around 115 turbines. Each turbine has a diameter of around 30 meters (98 feet). The pilot project will be installed at Norway\u2019s Mehuken wind park, on the west coast, this year.<\/p>\n

Wind Catching Systems asserts that its floating technology can generate five times the annual energy of the world\u2019s largest single turbines because it has double the swept area of a conventional 15 megawatt wind turbine. The company also says that its huge floating wind turbine unit could be used to power as many as 80,000 homes.<\/p>\n

ENOVA<\/a>, a government-owned company that works to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in Norway, thinks Wind Catching Systems is onto something, as it just this week awarded the company a pre-project grant of NOK 9.3 million (US $0.9 million). This is the second grant that ENOVA has awarded Wind Catching Systems \u2013 the first was in October 2022 for NOK 22 million (US $2.1 million).<\/p>\n

Wind Catching Systems was founded in 2017 and is headquartered at Lysaker, outside Oslo. The company\u2019s largest owners are GM Ventures (the venture capital arm of General Motors), Ferd (Norway\u2019s largest private investment company), and North Energy ASA, a publicly traded energy investment company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

This is certainly a creative and intriguing clean energy project. <\/p>\n

The idea is that the smaller turbines will be more efficient and maximize power generation from a concentrated area and, due to their smaller size, could also handle higher winds. But will the small turbines have to rotate a lot faster to capture the same amount of power as larger, individual turbines? And might the giant matrix add a lot of extra drag? <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll keep an eye on how this pilot performs when it\u2019s up and running. Let us know what you think in the comments below.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> A Danish wind turbine giant just discovered how to recycle all blades<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Wind Catching Systems<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wind turbines usually consist of one turbine with a set of blades, but Norway\u2019s Wind Catching Systems thinks its floating multi-turbine offshore wind technology will make clean energy more efficiently. Floating multi-turbine offshore wind The 320-meter-tall (1,050-foot-high) unit \u2013 that\u2019s just 33 feet shorter than the Eiffel Tower \u2013 is made up of a matrix […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}