Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-839-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-839-2020
Research article
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03 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 03 Jul 2020

Exploitation of the far-offshore wind energy resource by fleets of energy ships – Part 1: Energy ship design and performance

Aurélien Babarit, Gaël Clodic, Simon Delvoye, and Jean-Christophe Gilloteaux

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AR by Aurélien Babarit on behalf of the Authors (23 Apr 2020)
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 May 2020) by Carlo L. Bottasso
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Jun 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (04 Jun 2020)
ED: Publish as is (04 Jun 2020) by Carlo L. Bottasso
ED: Publish as is (06 Jun 2020) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel (Chief editor)
AR by Aurélien Babarit on behalf of the Authors (09 Jun 2020)
Short summary
This paper addresses the topic of far-offshore wind energy exploitation. Far-offshore wind energy exploitation is not feasible with grid-connected floating wind turbines because grid-connection cost, installation cost and O&M cost would be prohibitive. An enabling technology is the energy ship concept, which is described and modeled in the paper. A design of an energy ship is proposed. It is estimated that it could produce 5 GWh per annum of chemical energy (methanol).
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