MassLive reports on collaborative wind turbine anchoring system project
MassLive.com reported a team of researchers, including Melissa Landon, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Maine, is developing a new mooring system for floating offshore wind turbines that uses an integrated network of anchors and lines to hold dozens of turbines in place in the ocean. Landon is working with engineers from the University of Massachusetts and Texas A&M on the three-year project that is being funded by a $497,341 grant from the National Science Foundation. The team is working with Vryhof Anchors, an international industrial partner that produces offshore anchoring systems, according to the article. The goal of the project is to develop offshore floating wind farms where individual floating wind turbines are moored using the networked series of anchors and cables that hold the entire farm in place, the article states.