Ingenuity talks: Slashing offshore wind costs

Green transition 15 January 2019 Ronnie Refstrup Pedersen

Cutting cost is essential to accelerate the green transition. Using advanced cloud-based computing, engineers are making major progress in this field. In one offshore wind project, it saved almost a thousand tons of steel - on each foundation. Listen to Ramboll’s podcast about ideas that help solve global problems.

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