Ming Yang Smart Energy’s dual-rotor offshore floating wind turbine has set out to sea, rated at 16.6 MW, destined for an offshore wind farm. Almost all offshore wind is fixed-base, with just 270 MW worldwide being floating. But total floating wind targets globally now come to over 200 GW, a thousand times the deployed scale. For many countries, floating renewables are a necessity due to water depths and land availability constraints. There may be advantages such as better wind conditions (although this Mingyang pilot project expects only a 37% capacity factory) and the silver lining in the North Sea case of international transmission links, but ultimately it’s a more expensive technology only built when there isn’t enough room in shallow…