ESB and Shannon Foynes Port support floating wind research at UCC

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MaREI, the world-leading Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre at UCC, will carry out the phased study over the next two years / Aim is to examine the use of wet storage to support floating offshore wind projects off Ireland’s coast

ESB and Shannon Foynes Port have today announced a funding collaboration for a €250k study at MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at University College Cork (UCC), in the latest step towards helping Ireland to deliver floating offshore wind (FLOW) projects in the future. Starting in September, the focus of the research will be to examine the requirements and identify potential sites for wet storage, which is the temporary offshore storage of floating offshore wind turbines in suitable areas prior to... ... More: Official Press Release ESB

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