Norway is putting 3.94 billion crowns (about $428 million) behind wind turbines that float where the sea is too deep to build
Most offshore wind turbines stand on the seabed, which limits them to shallow water. Norway's state agency Enova has granted 3.94 billion Norwegian crowns (about $428 million) to two projects — Fortius Offshore Wind and Fram Wind Solutions — that will each test pairs of giant floating turbines rated at 18.5 megawatts apiece. Together they are expected to produce about 0.3 terawatt-hours a year, roughly the annual electricity use of 15,000 households, while proving technology that could cut the cost of wind power in deep oceans worldwide.
The upbeat factorif the floats work, the map of where wind power can go grows to most of the world's oceans.
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