First French commercial scale floating offshore wind tender gets go ahead

Ocean Winds and Principle Power will collaborate to develop and design the platforms for the 270MW facility

First floating wind farm in continental Europe fully powered up

Located off the coast of Portugal, Windfloat Atlantic has now been connected to the grid and is capable of supplying electricity to 60,000 homes a year

UK firms win £2.3m share for offshore technologies

Three British firms have been awarded a share of £2.3 million for the development of innovative technologies aimed at cutting the cost of offshore wind. The cash comes from the second round of the Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration scheme launched by the Government last May. DECC said offshore wind has the potential […]