NextFloat Project eyes floating wind opportunity

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A European consortium of 13 partners from eight countries is building a new floating wind prototype to help unlock the massive potential of the sector.  

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Backed by €16m of EU Horizon funding, the NextFloat Project will see a 6MW floating wind platform developed by the partners and deployed at the Mistral test site in the French Mediterranean. In parallel, the project will also see the consortium develop a scaled up 20MW+ model based on feedback from prototype testing, with the larger platform designed to be rolled out on a commercial scale across Europe and beyond.

The project is set to be led by France’s Technip Energies and is due to run until 2027. The other partners in the consortium are X1Wind, Naturgy, 2B Energy, Hellenic Cables, Technical University of Denmark, Hydro, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Schwartz Hautmont, Ocas, Tersan Shipyard, Ocean Ecostructures and Cybernetix.

“While the COP 27 just ended, we can only note that there is an urgent requirement for greater climate action and a swift transition to renewables energy,” said Laure Mandrou, SVP Carbon-Free Energy Solutions at Technip Energies.

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