Floating Offshore Windmills

Who does floating windmills get listed on AIS?
Here is an example. The first test windmill positioned outside Utsira, Norway since 2008 and still in use to test out new technology in full scale:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:850504/mmsi:992572500/imo:0/vessel:UNITECH_ZEFYROS

It seems more of them will need an AIS transponder:

Plus:

And if someone had miss it:

I’m a bit sceptical and I’m not alone…

Adding one more project to the list:

Floating Wind is where ir is happening at the moment:

Even combined with green hydrogen production:

Saving space so more power can be generated from less seabed area:

Interesting topic for fishing.

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How many of those will be off USWC?
Your guesstimate?

They have been having a lot of problems at the world’s largest floating wind farm.

A lot of the problems with floating wind have still to be figured out, mono-piled turbines are still a lot more reliable.

New technology under development nearly always have some problems, especially in the early phase.
Any major problems reported on the Hywind floating wind farm that is also off Scotland?
It has is operating for 5 years now:

Floating wind is where the future is (maybe?):