Offshore wind turbines are getting bigger every year, a trend that already helps offshore wind reduce costs all over the world. Whilst recent research suggests that costs will continue to dip as wind turbines get bigger and are deployed further offshore, the challenges to the design of the floating platform that supports the wind turbine increase.

You and your team are invited to this exciting and innovative webinar that aims to facilitate the community’s awareness and understanding of the general trends, challenges, and future perspectives for floating offshore wind turbine development. The webinar will start with an overview of the history of floating wind turbines and current design developments in Europe. This will be followed by a review and analysis of scaling laws applied to the design of floating wind turbines. The webinar finishes with a presentation about recent R&D work that tackles the design and optimisation challenges for 10MW to 25MW floating wind turbines.

Register here: https://buff.ly/3pwS6Ay

Presentation 1: Dr Erin Bachynski-Polić, Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Erin will provide an overview of the history of floating wind turbines and current design developments in Europe as well as the Design and optimisation of 10MW to 25MW floating wind turbines, plus Q&A.

Presentation 2: Dr Nataliia Sergiienko, Lecturer at the University of Adelaide

Nataliia will provide a review and analysis of scaling laws applied to the design of floating wind turbines, plus Q&A.

Facilitated by Dr Boyin Ding, Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, and Deputy Director at the Australia-China Joint Research Centre of Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Harnessing.