 the British VertAx Wind or Norway’s Gwind are also following suit through the development of different concepts. The French company Nenuphar is pushing ahead its VAWT design, with plans (pictured at the top of this article) to install the first floating wind farm off the coast of Marseilles.
With increasing demand for energy we are obliged to explore every possible solution. Vertical-axis wind turbines located in the deep sea have strong potential to be one of these solutions.
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Author: Maurizio Collu is a lecturer at the Offshore Renewable Energy Centre at Cranfield University. Michael Borg is currently carrying out postdoctoral research within the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark on floating vertical axis wind turbine concepts.
Image: An artist’s impression of future wind turbines. INFLOW / Technip / Nenuphar / EDF.