Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation For

Crown Estate

The type of substructure for the OWT could be mainly depends on the water depth, turbine size and
soil conditions. This report demonstrates a review for the OWT foundation installed and
commissioned in rounds one and two, and compares their water depths and turbine size.

The UK now has installed over 1,100 turbines at sea and around another 350 are currently under
construction. Because of this rapid growth, the industry can now claim to be providing around 3% of
total electricity in the UK

In autumn 2013, we granted an agreement for lease for the UK’s fist floating offshore wind farm

Round 1
Round 1 started in December 2000, and was the beginning of our leasing of areas of the seabed for
commercial development of offshore wind farms in UK waters. Typically the projects had no more
than 30 turbines, in areas selected by developers which were small in scale, typically 0.1 GW and
close to the shore. There are now 13 Round 1 projects fully operational with a generating capacity of
1.2 GW.

Round 2

Round 2 started in July 2003 for projects in proximity to the Greater Wash, the Thames Estuary and
Liverpool Bay, including some outside the 12 nautical mile territorial waters limit. These wind farms
are larger in scale and generally further from the shore than Round 1 projects. There are 16 Round 2
projects with a total generating capacity of almost 6 GW. Eight projects are currently fully
operational with a capacity of 2.4 GW and four are under construction with a design capacity of
some 1.4 GW, two of which should complete by the end of 2014.
Conclusion

Parametric equation

List of criteria and a list of options

Using FEA to determinate the mass which requires

Recommendations
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