As a country mostly surrounded by water, Korea has good potential for offshore wind energy utilization. With offshore wind turbines growing larger and with increasing water depth, jacket structures are attracting increased attention because they appear to be cost-effective, but they are still at...

As a country mostly surrounded by water, Korea plans to build a massive offshore wind farm off the west coast by 2019. Due to the different seabed condition, wind turbine with jacket foundation is considered as a suitable choice for the intermediate water depths so far. And preliminary work is...

Korea has huge potential for offshore wind energy and the first Korean offshore wind farm has been initiated off the southwest coast. With increasing water depth, different substructures of the offshore wind turbine, such as the jacket and multipile, are the increasing focus of attention because...