RESOURCES

This TAILWIND factsheet explores how more sustainable station-keeping systems can support the scale-up of floating offshore wind. It focuses on anchor concepts and fibre rope mooring lines, highlighting how design choices can reduce material use, environmental impact and end-of-life challenges. The factsheet also looks at shared-anchor opportunities, recycling pathways and key bottlenecks for fibre rope recyclability, showing why sustainability needs to be considered from early design to decommissioning.

July 8, 2026

This paper marks the first steps in the project putting forward economic, environmental, and technological key performance indicators to assist the selection of anchoring systems.

March 23, 2026

This deliverable complements the framework initiated by D1.2 which covered technical and financial KPIs, by providing a comprehensive review of environmental and social KPIs, and a shortlist of such KPIs to be considered for sustainability impact assessment for the development of Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) renewable energy infrastructure.

This deliverable focuses on key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be utilised to evaluate technological innovations and concepts of offshore wind and renewable energy projects

Roll-up of the TAILWIND project

June 23, 2025

This report paves the way for the TAILWIND geotechnical activities as it identifies the challenges of typical anchors for floating offshore wind (FOW) turbines and guides thereby the selection of the anchors to be advanced further in the project.

Leaflet of the TAILWIND project, for digital distribution.

Leaflet of the TAILWIND project, for printing.

This report corresponds to D1.1 ‘Project design basis’ of the TAILWIND project in which research on mooring lines and anchors for floating offshore wind is being developed. The scope of the activity here reported is related to the scenarios definition, including location, floater and mooring configurations, as well as the estimation of loads expected for mooring lines and anchors in selected scenarios.