Floating wind and green hydrogen — a perfect pairing?

A floating wind farm planned for offshore eastern Scotland could become the world’s first combined floating wind and green hydrogen project.

The 200 MW Salamander floating wind project is being developed by Irish blue energy developer Simply Blue Energy in joint venture partnership with Subsea 7, which acquired a minority stake in the project in March this year.

Today, Blue Energy reported that the project has signed a memorandum of understanding with London-headquartered consultancy ERM...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore-wind/floating-wind-and-green-hydrogen-a-perfect-pairing/

ABS classes a floating wind farm

WindFloat Atlantic, 20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castello, Portugal, has become the world’s first offshore wind farm to be in class with a classification society, after its three 8.4 MW floating turbines were accepted by the ABS Class Committee.

The three ABS-classed, semi-submersible type units were designed by Principle Power. They carry MHI Vestas turbines producing a total of 25 MW of floating offshore wind power.

WindFloat Atlantic, of which Ocean Winds is the majority...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore-wind/abs-classes-a-floating-wind-farm/