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

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

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

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

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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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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 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).