Naval architecture and marine engineering consultant firm Glosten has won the second phase of the U.S. Department of Energy’s FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize for PelaStar, its tension-leg platform technology, the Seattle-based company announced May 15. PelaStar is among five winning technologies that the DOE highlighted as “viable for industrialized manufacturing and deployment of gigawatt-scale offshore wind farms” in the country, according to Glosten. The FLOWIN contest was created to accelerate the development of floating offshore wind supply chain solutions that could help advance the country’s decarbonization efforts. In Phase One, companies had to show that their technologies were…