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Ten scoop first US floating wind prizes as Biden targets installation boom and cost-cuts - Recharge

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Ten scoop first US floating wind prizes as Biden targets installation boom and cost-cuts | Recharge

Floating wind platform pioneer Principle Power and Norway-based Aker Solutions said they will lay the ground for US industrialisation of WindFloat technology after scooping a government award designed to foster growth of the sector's supply chain.

The partners were named among winners of a first Floating Offshore Wind Readiness (FLOWIN) Prize from the US Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office.

Principle Power and energy contracting specialist Aker Solutions – the latter a shareholder in the former – will now advance their FloatHOME Project using the fourth-generation WindFloat design to “evaluate and compare deployment options, considering the development of advanced, purpose-built fabrication facilities and infrastructure”.

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