A revolutionary approach to turbine design could make floating wind power cost competitive as early as 2022, according to Wind Catching Systems, a Norwegian start-up, which has teamed up with Aibel and the Institute for Energy Technology to bring its multi-rotor design to market. The company, which is owned by Ferd and North Energy, is also supported by Innovation Norway and aims to integrate as many as one-hundred-and-seventeen 1 MW turbines into one structure to help improve the capacity per square kilometer by up to five times. In announcing the partnerships this week, Wind Catching Systems CEO Ole Heggheim claimed that the company “will make floating offshore wind competitive as soon as 2022 or 2023, which is at least 10…