Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has joined forces with the National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) in a research partnership to work on three PhD projects aimed at developing new floating offshore wind technologies.

Each valued at GBP 84,000 (around EUR 99,000) and co-founded by ORE Catapult, the NDC, and the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, the three projects focus on a different aspect of floating offshore wind development, including the simulation of floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) systems, design optimisation of these systems, and environmental concerns.