Cutting offshore wind costs IKEA style - Sam Kanner, CEO Aikido


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Jul 08 2024 40 mins   1
Cutting offshore wind costs IKEA style! 

That’s what Sam Kanner and his company Aikido have set out to do. 

80% of the world's potential wind energy potential exists over deeper water, where the wind platforms need to be floating.  

There’s just one problem: building, assembling and installing large, commercial-scale floating wind farms is costly and takes a long time, up to 10 years. 

Aikido’s solution: a foldable, submersible technology that aims to build and assemble offshore wind farms twice as fast, just using a third of the space needed today. Almost like a flat pack from IKEA ... 

Watch this episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to hear more. 

Did you know floating wind energy held such great potential? 

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