Wednesday 19 July 2023

Wind Farm off Aberdeen


I like looking up details about wind farms but this one beats most. It is small but seems to be a test and demonstration facility and is one that caused a famous objection. It then led me to find out about suction bucket caissons as a way of anchoring the wind turbines to the sea floor. Sounds like you push the bucket into the marine floor sediment and suck some water out to reduce the pressure. Then the higher water pressure outside would pin the bucket to the sea floor.