It would seem that everything is not going quite so well in the Offshore wind turbine industry.
Roughly 600 of Europe’s installed 948 offshore turbines have been prone to grout connection failure, causing turbines to tilt within their monopile foundations. But according to some, the problem lies less with the grout itself, than with a design that relies on grout to hold the foundation and transition piece together.
So that’s 2/3 that are failing already. However all is not lost.
Retrofits: expensive, but promising
Several solutions to remedy ailing monopiles have come to the fore………………………………….
So the repairs are going to most likely cost us a small fortune.
Bloody useless bits of kit. They produce bugger all electricity when the wind isn’t blowing and fall over when it does.
