APPLICATIONS
I. Facility Design
For Wind Energy Technologies
The design of offshore wind plants begins with site selection, which not only must account for applicable regulations and potential use conflicts but also for the geotechnical and metocean environmental conditions. Geophysical and geotechnical information, such as bathymetry and sediment type, in combination with metocean data, is essential to successfully designing robust structures and foundations. Metocean information is essential for selecting turbines appropriate to the wind resource, for designing foundations to withstand turbine and wave loads (including those from extreme events), and for micrositing within the wind plant to account for dominant wind directions and wakes. In general, the information needed for design will be in the form of long-term means or frequency distributions of variables of interest.