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Researcher Alain Ulazia used wind and wave data between 1920 and 2010 from a high-energy site off the west coast of Ireland to analyze how sea conditions evolved and generate a model for calculating the mechanical fatigue that can be sustained by floating wind turbines as a result of these conditions. This mathematical-statistical method makes it possible to calculate the service lifetime of turbines on the basis of the meteorology of a specific site.

In a study published in Ocean Engineering conducted by the EOLO research group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) a mathematical-statistical method was developed to enable "the suitability of installing floating wind farms on a specific location" to be determined. For example, whether it is highly likely that the wind turbines will sustain mechanical fatigue or extreme offshore conditions despite the site being a very high-energy one, explained Alain Ulazia, lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering—Eibar.