OFFSHORE FLOATING TURBINES "COULD POWER EUROPE FOUR TIMES OVER" Sunday, 28 July 2013, 09:02
Buoyant wind farms situated in deep seas could employ 318,000 people and provide 145 million households with electricity by 2030, according to a new report published this week by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). The paper, entitled Deep Water, argues that new floating turbine designs, with fixed-bottom designs in deep seas, are cost-competitive and could be market-ready by 2017 ? with massive electricity-generating potential. The paper makes a fleeting reference to Malta"s plans for a deep-water offshore wind farm at Sikka l-Bajda, but makes no reference to a proposal by Hexicon for a 36-turbine floating wind farm. "The energy produced from turbines in deep waters in the North Sea alone could meet the EU"s electricity consumption four times over," the report says.
Na das sind ja schöne Neuigkeiten ;-)
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