Europe Needs to Push Floating Offshore Wind Technology

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Last week Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope, opened the Floating Offshore Wind Energy event in Marseille. His keynote focused on the industry’s vision to maintain European technological leadership in offshore in the coming decades.

Floating offshore wind is coming of age in Europe; with a pipeline of projects approaching the commercialisation of over 300 MW, and a full potential of close to 4,000 MW in European waters, this technology is no longer confined to the lab. Europe, Dickson stated, must now deploy demonstration projects to deliver a final message of assurance to investors: the costs of floating offshore wind will fall with upcoming volumes, especially in France and the UK; by 2020, the industry expects a 10% cost reduction; a constantly-descending cost curve... ... More: Official Press Release WindEurope

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