Novel Design for Floating Offshore Wind Approved by ABS
(ABERDEEN) ABS issued an approval in principle (AIP) to ECO TLP™ and MOCEAN-Offshore BV for its floating offshore wind turbine support structure. The unique design from ECO TLP™ utilizes slip-formed cylindrical concrete hulls and gravity anchors, which, when combined with a tension-leg mooring system, has a smaller footprint than traditional structures using steel column-stabilized hulls. “Offshore floating wind will play a key role in the global energy transition by expanding the reach of renewable generating capacity to waters that are too deep for fixed-bottom wind