Norwegian company World Wide Wind (WWW) has signed a technical cooperation agreement with the Metal Industries Research & Development Center (MIRDC) in Taiwan to advance and verify the development of the company’s floating wind turbine concept, the CRAFT-turbine (Counter Rotating Axis Floating Tilted turbine).
The partnership aims to deliver full technical validation for global deployment, with a particular focus on the metocean conditions found in Taiwanese waters. The first phase of the project, scheduled for 2025, involves the development of a detailed computer model to perform integrated hydrodynamic and aerodynamic simulations. These will assess operational loads, structural responses and movements across six degrees of freedom. The results will be validated through scaled model testing at MIRDC’s ocean test basin, which will also support design optimisation. Following successful completion of the initial phase, WWW and MIRDC plan to continue joint development of the CRAFT turbine for future commercial applications.
