The Maritime Research Institute Netherland (MARIN) was in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium, MARIN said in May. The institute said this was the first time such an extensive scale model test campaign has been conducted for floating wind turbines, a technology considered to be the next step in development of offshore wind energy after the present generation of fixed shallow-water wind turbines.
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