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Offshore and Floating Wind

Wind turbines built at sea, on fixed foundations or on floating structures. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes offshore wind power or floating offshore wind. These machines face harsher conditions than turbines on land, with salt water, waves and deeper foundations, so they are grouped by the sea setting the cited article describes instead of by rotor design alone, and the group sits beside the other wind conversion groups.

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Wikipedia: Offshore wind power
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Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea.
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Wikipedia: Floating offshore wind
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Floating offshore wind involves one or more offshore wind turbines mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where fixed-foundation turbines are not technically/economically feasible.
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