Power Generation News – Late June 2024
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A project is to develop the use of low CO2 steels from Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site to build platforms for floating offshore wind structures and strengthen local supply chains has won nearly £1 million of innovation funding.
The Launchpad project is a collaboration between Marine Power Systems (MPS), Tata Steel UK, Swansea University, Associated British Ports and engineering and fabrication company, Ledwood Engineering.
The funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency, is to further develop and optimise PelaFlex, Marine Power System’s unique and flexible floating offshore wind platform, for applications in the Celtic Sea. The project also aims to ensure that the material sourcing, fabrication, manufacture, and product deployment is maximised through local supply chains.
