The prospect of floating offshore wind has raised new questions about station keeping, platform design and stability, lease area space utilization, and anchor footprints. Shallow waters present a challenging design problem while the desire to site offshore wind leases in ever increasing water depths is possibly pushing the technology into ultra-deep water. The second of 2 panels taking a deep dive into floating offshore wind. This panel focuses specifically on mooring innovations, a critical component of floating offshore wind. NOWRDC projects that will be featured in this panel include:

-Bradley Ling, Senior R&D Engineer, Principle Power, Innovative Shallow Water Mooring Components for Floating Wind Platforms (ShallowFloat)

-Krish Thiagarajan Sharman, Ph.D., Professor, Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Techno-economic Mooring Configuration & Design for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines in Shallow Waters

-Spencer Hallowell, Research Engineer, University of Maine, Design and Certification of Taut-synthetic Moorings for Floating Wind Turbines

-Dr. Matthew Hall, Senior Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Standardized Scalable Mooring Solutions Optimized for the U.S. Supply Chain;

-Lei Zou, Ph.D., ASME Fellow, Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, Dual-Functional Tuned Inerter Damper for Enhanced Semi-Sub Offshore Wind Turbine

Moderator: Jerica Nolte, Floating Technologies Lead at TotalEnergies US