Fabrication of the company’s flagship SOF unit, a 3MW turbine mounted on a distinctive tension leg platform based around a latticework of braces and flotation cylinders, is set to begin in July at at the Volkswerft shipyard in Stralsund.

"For nearly two years, Gicon has, at its own risk and with a significant proportion of own resources, pursued the goal to build a full-scale pilot of SOF and deploy it in the German Baltic Sea,” says Gicon managing director Jochen Großmann.

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