Improving the Bankability of Floating Wind

随着Hywind和Kincardine的第一批浮动风电场的发展，浮动风在英国获得了最初的立足点。这些努力的成功引起了学术界和工业界对这项技术的极大兴趣。此外，政府最近就浮动风力发电厂的环形围栏计划进行了磋商，加上英国皇家地产公司（the Crown Estate）向深水区租赁项目的扩张，意味着对项目开发商来说，用不了多久，兆瓦级浮动风力发电厂就会像固定底部的替代方案一样具有吸引力。然而，从5个结构的示范站点到100多个单元的商业阵列有很大的飞跃。这种转变在项目生命周期的各个阶段都带来了许多不确定性，这反过来影响了海上风电的财务评估和可融资性。该项目的目的是解决目前影响该技术可融资性的一些问题。

Floating wind gained an initial foothold in Britain with the development of the firstfloating windfarms at Hywind and Kincardine. The success of these endeavours hasgenerated a large amount of interest in the technology, both in academia and inindustry. Moreover, the recent consultation by the government on a ring-fenced schemefor floating wind[1], along with the expansion of The Crown Estate leasing rounds todeep water[2], mean that it won't be long before multi-megawatt floating wind farmsappear as attractive to project developers as their fixed bottom alternatives.However, there is a large jump from demonstrator sites with 5 structures to commercialarrays of over 100 units. The transition throws up numerous uncertainties at all stages ofthe project lifetime, which in turn affect the financial assessment and bankability offloating wind. The aim of this project is to tackle some of the issues currently affecting thebankability of the technology.