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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-839-2020

Articles | Volume 5, issue 3

Wind Energ. Sci., 5, 839–853, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-839-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Wind Energ. Sci., 5, 839–853, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-839-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 3

Research article 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 et al.

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'General comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Feb 2020
- AC1: 'reply to comment of anonymous referee #1', Aurélien Babarit, 28 Feb 2020
SC1: 'General comments', Shane McDonagh, 02 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'reply to comment of Shane McDonagh', Aurélien Babarit, 09 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Review Babarit et al.', Michael Muskulus, 10 Apr 2020
- AC3: 'Answer to referee's comment', Aurélien Babarit, 23 Apr 2020
EC1: 'Review by anonymous reviewer', Carlo L. Bottasso, 27 Apr 2020
- AC4: 'Answer to referee's comment', Aurélien Babarit, 30 Apr 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2020) Author's response

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)

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).