France’s first offshore wind turbine, the floating 2MW FloatGen, has been anchored in the French Atlantic.
The unit, based on Ideol’s ‘damping pool’ foundation concept, was towed out in a ten-hour operation and hooked up to pre-installed mooring lines earlier this month at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes’ SEM-REV test site off the coast of Brittany.
A spell of “severe weather” immediately after the floater’s installation that featured five-metre waves and 15 metre per second winds “proved its excellent seakeeping performance and confirmed the accuracy of Ideol’s simulation models”, said the company.
