The D-Floater is a stackable and transportable floating wind foundation with three columns and a robust Delta-shaped pontoon configuration. The third pontoon is wing-pontoon lowered under the two other pontoons to allow stacking of the D-Floaters. Due to the robust hull configuration without any fatigue-prone underwater braces the D-Floater has excellent long-term fatiue behavior.
D-Floaters will be fabricated at CIMC Raffles, loaded onboard a transportation vessel and transported to the desired marshalling port for turbine installation. Upon arrival the D-Floater is completed and the turbine may be installed in a shallow water depth port.
The D-Floater can be adopted to turbine of varying size, including 20+ MW turbines.