STARFLOAT - multifloat-spar for enabling the economic exploitation of deep water wind

海上风力涡轮机的浮动基础将允许风力发电场在英国，欧洲和南部非洲的大西洋边缘周围的深水中建造。为了实现这一市场，需要创新的浮动基础解决方案，以达到具有竞争力的能源成本，或者可以改善采用固定基础的近岸风电场的经济性。Oceanflow Energy提出的Starfloat解决方案涉及一种新型的多浮式Spar结构，采用创新的成本削减建造，组装和部署过程，以实现更深水域风电场场地的经济开发。在世界许多地方，特别是非洲西南海岸，淡水的缺乏威胁着社区的生存，阻碍着他们的经济发展.将反渗透淡水发电厂安装在海上，由风能发电，可以取代昂贵的柴油驱动的反渗透装置。这项可行性研究旨在证明平台技术在经济发电和淡水生产方面的可行性，这取决于社区的需求。

Floating foundations for offshore wind turbines will allow wind farms to be built further offshore in the deeperwater that exists around the Atlantic Margins of the UK, Europe and southern Africa. For this market to berealised innovative floating foundation solutions are required to arrive at costs of energy that are competitiveor can better the economics of nearshore wind farms that employ fixed foundations. The Starfloat solutionproposed by Oceanflow Energy involves a novel multifloat-spar structure employing an innovative cost cuttingbuild, assembly and deployment process to allow the economic exploitation of deeper water wind farm sites. Inmany parts of the world and particularly off the south west coast of Africa scarcity of fresh water is a threat tothe existence of communities and an obstacle to their economic development. Placing reverse osmosis freshwater generating plant offshore powered by electricity from wind energy could displace expensive diesel drivenRO plant. This feasibility study is to demonstrate the viability of the platform technology for economicelectricity production and fresh water generation depending upon the needs of the community.