FEED study indicates offshore wind costs could drop below £85/MWh

Jul 11, 2014

A study initiated by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has indicated that UK offshore wind energy costs could fall to below £85/MWh by the mid-2020s

By Ritesh Gupta

The FEED study, featuring The Glosten Associates’ innovative tension leg floating platform (TLP) for Offshore Wind demonstrator, has indicated that the design could play a major role in reducing UK offshore wind energy costs.

The floating platform is designed to provide high capacity factors in wind speeds exceeding 10m per second in water between 60 and 1200m deep.

William Hurley, Glosten project manager, mentioned that the entity completed a substantial amount of engineering, design and model testing, as well as project execution planning and installation engineering. He said that the results have validated the earlier work. He also mentioned that the team is ready for a full-scale 6MW demonstration project.

ETI emphasised that the project has shown that, by 2030, offshore wind could be delivering energy at costs similar to the lowest cost forms of low carbon generation.

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