Every day since April 20th, we've been shown what can happen when something goes terribly wrong on a deep-sea, floating oil rig. But what about a deep-sea, floating wind turbine? Would it topple?
Portugal’s WindFloat Atlantic – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – is now four years old and still breaking its own power output records. The 25 megawatt (MW) WindFloat ...
Enlit on the Road visited Principle Power at WindFloat Atlantic Project’s base in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, to learn why the O&M phase of a floating offshore wind project is one of the most ...
Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has issued Approval in Principle for the WindFloat Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) foundation. WindFloat is designed by Principle ...
The US’s long-awaited entry into the global floating wind arena is being stepped up through Principle Power’s recently unveiled plans to deploy a maiden 2MW version of its WindFloat deepwater platform ...
Work to install turbines for the Windfloat Atlantic floating wind project that will be built off Portugal has kicked off, according to project partner Repsol. The 25MW floating offshore wind farm is ...
Oslo, Norway (November 7, 2018) — DNV GL, the world’s largest independent energy advisory and certification body, has successfully completed a lenders’ technical due diligence on the 25-MW Windfloat ...
Someday decades from now, California's sprawling coastal cities could draw their power from floating windmills that bob on the sea like buoys, far from shore. Their blades would spin over deep ocean ...
The combine, which will be led by newly appointed chief executive Joao Metelo, is developing projects around its WindFloat semisubmersible turbine arrays in the US, UK and Portugal. "As Principle ...
Kincardine floating offshore wind farm, located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, is now fully operational, Principle Power, a company that designed the 50MW wind farm's semi-submersible ...
The Portuguese coast may be the site of the first ever floating offshore wind turbines. If all goes well, the wind industry could embark into deeper and windier seas. Vestas, a Danish company that has ...