This TAILWIND factsheet explores how more sustainable station-keeping systems can support the scale-up of floating offshore wind. It focuses on anchor concepts and fibre rope mooring lines, highlighting how design choices can reduce material use, environmental impact and end-of-life challenges. The factsheet also looks at shared-anchor opportunities, recycling pathways and key bottlenecks for fibre rope recyclability, showing why sustainability needs to be considered from early design to decommissioning.
The table below contains the literature relevant to this summary document and will continue to be updated as new literature is added to Tethys.