The €36m ($48.7m) pilot aims to have two distinct prototypes riding the swell off Spain by 2015.
FloatGen, an EU-funded consortium, expects to have engineering wrapped up this year on the concepts:
- a 2MW unit developed around Gamesa’s G8X turbine mounted on a “surface floating” concrete platform designed by France’s Ideol;
- and a 3MW prototype based on an Acciona AW-3000, with a semi-submersible to be designed by Spanish shipbuilder Navantia and offshore construction specialist Olav Olsen of Norway.
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