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MOLO offshore floating wind platform lowers risk and costs
- Published September 26, 2023; updated September 30, 2026; estimated reading time 3 minutes. Categories: Offshore wind / Balance of plant; Energy.
- MOLO® is Clovers’ patented semi-submersible steel floater for offshore wind turbines, designed for automated serial production. The article says its production methods use established offshore technology and can fit into existing European fabricators’ facilities with few modifications. Its patented multiple-column design is said to speed up a labour-intensive stage of floating-structure construction.
- The company argues that the floating-wind industry needs changes in production methods, not only new product designs, to reduce high costs and risk. MOLO is presented as using a robust supply chain with low schedule and technical risk. The platform is entirely steel and described as 99% recyclable; floating turbines far from shore may also reduce visual impact and bird strikes.
- Market context: the page cites a forecast that floating wind could provide 264 GW, or 15% of offshore wind energy, by 2050—equivalent to more than 3,000 Hywind Tampen projects or 15,000 turbines. Clovers’ end customers are wind-farm developers, and it also works with local contractors and EPCI contractors to use their existing assets. SDG 7 shown.
- Contact: Eivind Sønju, Managing Director, es@clovers.no; phone reveal control collapsed. Company: CLOVERS AS, Grensen 17, 0159 Oslo, Norway; clovers.no/.