n the First Quarter 2019 issue of OWJ, BVG Associates senior consultant Andy Logan argued that there is a 'false dichotomy' between bottom-fixed and floating foundations for offshore wind. "Floating wind has long been seen as the next generation of offshore wind and as a competitor to bottom-fixed concepts but cannot yet compete with it on cost," he said. "But as both technologies continue to mature, they each gain improved viability at intermediate water depths and the choice of foundation type then becomes an organisational or regional preference." In like fashion, it is sometimes argued that because turbines are getting bigger and water depths increasing that the monopile foundation has had its day. But as Cameron Dunn, US offshore wind leader at Arup explains, there is still plenty of mileage in the monopile concept.
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