The San Franciso-based company says its floating foundation enables the installation of fully assembled wind turbines from ports, regardless of height restrictions, and that its technology is also suitable for ports with shallow waters with its low transit draught.
The Aikido platform facilitates transporting a fully assembled unit horizontally either on a barge or using tugboats and then, once at its designated offshore location, upending the floater using water ballast. The platform is then locked out by inserting a pin into each of the frames that form the platform.
This way, an entire wind turbine, together with its foundation, could be assembled at a dry dock, without the need to switch ports or yards for component manufacturing, final assembly and turbine integration, Aikido’s CEO said in an interview with offshoreWIND.biz in March 2023.
Last year, Aikido said the plan was to launch a 2 MW pilot project by the end of this year and then install a demonstrator project with a turbine of a 10 MW or 15 MW capacity in 2026 or 2027.
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