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GE Researchers Unveil 12 MW Floating Wind Turbine Concept Highlights $4 MM Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) ATLANTIS project during ARPA-E’s Virtual Innovation Summit Project involves the design and development of optimized controls that could enable future offshore turbines 35% lower in mass compared to current designs for floating offshore turbines Floating Turbines would open up possibility for offshore installations at depths beyond >60m Would dramatically expand potential of US offshore wind resources to more than 7,000 TeraWatt hours (TWh) per year, nearly double the ...

GE is partnering with Glosten, the developer of the PelaStar tension-leg platform floating wind turbine foundation, as part of an ongoing US research project funded by ARPA-E. The companies are working together as part of the $4m project, supported through the Aerodynamic Turbines Lighter and Afloat with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control (ATLANTIS) programme, to design and develop controls to support a 12MW floating offshore wind turbine. Rogier Blom, the project’s principal investigator, said: “Designing a floating turbine is like putting a bus on a tall pole, making it ...