The Norway-based company is developing a multi-turbine floating wind power plant with the goal of maximising the energy production per floating structure while enabling a self-contained maintenance system eliminating the need for specialised vessels to support offshore maintenance operations.
With significant freedom in capacity scaling, the Windcatcher may be employed in medium-scale distributed power or in gigawatt-scale integrated offshore systems. The basic system characteristics and components are retained irrespective of the size and use of the system.
Wind Catching Systems is working to establish itself as an independent technology provider to the floating wind sector, and to have a fully commercial product line ready for subsidy-free deployment worldwide by the end of the decade.
Wind Catching Systems are contributing to multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by developing an innovative multirotor technology for floating offshore wind, promoting renewable energy adoption, advancing sustainable infrastructure, and contributing to climate action and responsible consumption and production practices.
One Wind Catching unit can produce energy for 80,000 households, Wind Catching Systems said, adding that the multi-turbine solution would also solve sustainability issues related to the recycling and reuse of turbine blades, marine resources and CO2 emissions from installation and maintenance.
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