142 results found for 'windfloat atlantic'

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  • Floating Wind Projects Featuring WindFloat Tech Exceed 1 TWh Milestone

    4 September 2025
    Floating Wind, R&D, Technology

    Floating offshore wind projects featuring Principle Power’s WindFloat technology have delivered more than 1 TWh of energy production since the first pilot project was installed in 2011, the company announced on 3 September. The 1 TWh output includes generation from WindFloat 1, a 2 MW pilot project in Portugal (2011-2016) and Scotland (2018-2020); WindFloat Atlantic, […]

  • Norwegian Company Expands Business Outside Europe as Tokyo Gas Starts Using Its Digital Platform for Offshore Wind Farm Development

    10 October 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology

    Tokyo Gas has begun utilising a digital platform for offshore wind project development provided by Vind AI. The Norwegian technology company says that with its platform, developers can complete business cases for offshore wind projects more than five times faster. Vind AI’s platform supports developers in evaluating and designing wind power projects, and integrates data, […]

  • WavEC Shares Survey Findings for Portuguese Floating Wind Demo Site

    21 February 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Innovation, Research & Development

    WavEC Offshore Renewables has published findings following the first offshore surveys at the Technological Free Zone offshore of Viana do Castelo, Portugal, a site that will host floating offshore wind demonstration projects. The study was supported by oceanographic surveys carried out in March and October of 2023, collecting acoustic data and physical samples of the […]

  • Principle Power to Continue with O&M Services on WindFloat Atlantic Project

    3 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Ocean Winds has extended its operations and maintenance (O&M) long-term contract with Principle Power for the 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic project, the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm. Since the project’s first WindFloat unit was installed in 2019, Principle Power has provided O&M services to Ocean Winds, which oversees the asset management of WindFloat […]

  • Tokyo Gas Makes First Investment in Overseas Floating Wind Project

    6 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Tokyo Gas has acquired a 21.2 per cent stake in WindFloat Atlantic, the 25.2 MW floating offshore wind farm in Portugal. WindFloat Atlantic, operated by Windplus, a majority-owned subsidiary of Ocean Winds, has been operational since 2020. According to the Japanese company, this is Tokyo Gas’s first direct investment in an overseas floating offshore wind […]

  • World’s First Semi-Submersible Floating Offshore Wind Farm Smashes Predictions

    1 February 2024
    Floating Wind, Industry, Project Updates, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    WindFloat Atlantic, the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, has completed its third year in operation, closing in 2023 with an electricity production of 80 GWh. Connected to the grid by the end of 2019 and fully commissioned in 2020, the floating offshore wind farm was developed by the Windplus consortium formed by Ocean […]

  • ABS Certifies WindFloat Atlantic Floating Turbines

    4 November 2019
    Technology

    The classification society ABS has certified the WindFloat Atlantic floating wind turbines, the first of which was installed off the coast of Portugal in October. The semi-submersible platforms, designed by Principle Power, are fitted out with 8.4 MW MHI Vestas offshore wind turbines and will be installed at a water depth of 100m. The 25 […]

  • WindFloat Atlantic Producing Power

    3 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The WindFloat Atlantic offshore wind project in Portugal has begun producing power. The project’s first MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbine began generating power after being connected on 31 December 2019. “The commissioning of the WindFloat Atlantic project demonstrates the maturity and commercial readiness of floating offshore wind technology,” said Principle Power CEO João Metelo. “As the […]

  • Kersten Joins WindFloat Atlantic Team

    29 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Metal bending specialist Kersten has been commissioned to produce the curved inverted angle profiles for the floating foundations of the Windfloat Atlantic project in Portugal.

  • World’s First Semi-Submersible Floating Offshore Wind Farm Exceeds Expectations

    27 January 2023
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    WindFloat Atlantic, the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, has completed its second full year in operation. The 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic ended 2022 with an electricity production of 78GWh, a five per cent increase in output compared to 2021. Fully commissioned in 2020, the wind farm was developed by the Windplus consortium formed […]

  • Final WindFloat Atlantic Turbine Put Together

    9 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas and Global Wind Service (GWS) have completed the assembly of the last turbine for the WindFloat Atlantic project. The last of the three MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW turbines destined for WindFloat Atlantic was assembled last weekend on the quayside at the Port of Ferrol in Spain, GWS said. The project’s second floating wind platform was […]

  • Termination and Testing of WindFloat Atlantic Cables Completed

    3 July 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The termination and testing of the export and array cables at the Windfloat Atlantic project has been completed, JDR Cable Systems said via social media. The third and final floating wind turbine was towed to the project site at the end of May, with connection to mooring and electrical lines then left to be carried out. […]

  • ASM Industries Floats Out First WindFloat Atlantic Foundation

    23 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Portugal’s ASM Industries has tested and floated out the first of the two floating foundations being built for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic wind farm. “The tests were very successful and totally safe, and were the culmination of several months of hard and continuous work,” Adelino Costa Matos, CEO of ASM Industries, said. ”This is a project […]

  • Photo of the Day: The Three WindFloat Atlantic Turbines

    5 June 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    OffshoreWIND.biz‘s Photo of the Day: The WindFloat Atlantic floating wind farm in full array. The WindFloat Atlantic project is almost fully completed, with only the connection of the third turbine left to be done. Bourbon Subsea Services towed the third turbine to its designated location at the end of May, with connection to mooring and […]

  • Vryhof Orders FMGC Clump Weights for WindFloat Atlantic

    11 April 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Vryhof has selected FMGC (Fonderie et Mécanique Générale Castelbriantaise) to provide its clump weights for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project offshore Portugal. WindFloat Atlantic, owned by Windplus SA, is expected to be fully operational in the second half of 2019 some 20 kilometers from Viana do Castelo in Portugal at a depth of […]

  • Nexans to Wire Portuguese Floaters

    26 March 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans will supply pre-terminated and factory-tested turbine cables as well as the full scope of T-connectors terminating the dynamic inter-array cables for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind farm. WindFloat Atlantic will be the world’s first large-scale commercial floating wind project operating at 66 kilovolts (kV). Nexans has been selected to supply its WINDLINK pre-terminated factory-tested […]

  • WindFloat Atlantic Fully Up and Running

    27 July 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind farm is now fully operational and supplying electricity to Portugal’s electrical grid. The WindFloat Atlantic project features three MHI Vestas 8.4 MW turbines mounted on Principle Power’s semi-submersible floating foundations. Following the connection of the last of the three wind turbines to the 20-kilometre export cable connecting […]

  • Final WindFloat Atlantic Turbine Ready to Go Home

    19 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The last of the three floating wind turbines for the WindFloat Atlantic project will soon set sail from Spain to its designated location off Portugal. Tractebel Engie reported on 17 May that it fully assembled the third WindFloat Atlantic platform in the port of Ferrol.  The turbine should start its journey to the site off […]

  • Bourbon Toasts to WindFloat Atlantic

    22 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Windplus has awarded Bourbon Subsea Services with a turnkey contract for the installation of the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind farm offshore Portugal.

  • Lankhorst Dyneema Tethers WindFloat Atlantic

    20 November 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating project in Portugal has used the first ever Lankhorst Dyneema DM20 mooring tethers.

  • WindFloat Atlantic Becomes First-Ever Classed Offshore Wind Farm

    15 July 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    WindFloat Atlantic has become the world’s first classed offshore wind farm, after its three 8.4 MW floating turbines were accepted by the ABS Class Committee. The three ABS-classed, semi-submersible floating foundations are designed by Principle Power and are housing MHI Vestas turbines which make a total of 25 MW of capacity. WindFloat Atlantic, of which […]

  • Final WindFloat Atlantic Turbine En Route to Project Site

    28 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The third and final floating wind turbine for the WindFloat Atlantic project has set sail from Spain to the project site offshore Portugal. The turbine will be traveling from the Port of Ferrol towards its final destination 20km off Viana do Castelo on a journey that will take three days. At the project site, this […]

  • JDR Wins WindFloat Atlantic Cable Order

    6 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Hartlepool-based subsea cable supplier JDR has been selected by WindPlus as the preferred cable supplier for the 25MW Windfloat Atlantic floating wind farm

  • WindFloat Atlantic Launch: A New Era for Offshore Wind and the Blue Economy

    22 October 2019

    By João Metelo, CEO of Principle Power The first WindFloat Atlantic unit, with the turbine fully installed, has just sailed from Ferrol, Spain, towards its destination, 20 km off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. It will soon be joined by two more units, which by the end of the year will produce […]

  • Navantia Building Windfloat Atlantic Floating Foundation

    1 August 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Navantia has begun manufacturing a floating foundation for the Portuguese WindFloat Atlantic project at the Fene shipyard in Spain, after the Navantia-Windar joint venture won a contract for the works a few months ago, the foundation manufacturer informed.

  • First Subsea Nets WindFloat Atlantic Contract

    14 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    The UK-based First Subsea has secured a contract to provide Platform Mooring Connectors (PMCs) for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project in Portugal. The company will supply nine PMCs, each with a 5500kN minimum breaking load, to the project’s three MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW wind turbines to be installed 20km offshore Viana do Castelo. The PMCs will be used to connect […]