Life Cycle Assessment of a Barge-Type Floating Wind Turbine and Comparison with Other Types of Wind Turbines

The intensive increase of global warming every year affects our world negatively and severely. use renewable energy sources has gained importance in reducing eliminating the effect warming. To this end, new technologies are being developed to facilitate these resources. One technological developments is floating wind turbine. In order evaluate respective environmental footprint systems, a life cycle assessment (LCA) herein applied. study, impact turbines investigated using approach results compared with ones onshore jacket offshore same power capacity. studied turbine square foundation that open at its centre connected seabed synthetic fibre-nylon anchorage system. all cycles such structure, i.e., manufacture, operation, disposal, recycling stages turbines, been evaluated. For it found greatest corresponds manufacturing stage, whilst potential payback time 2 MW barge-type platform higher than onshore, (2 MW) (5 on sway platform.