Spanish floating wind pioneer X1Wind’s part-scale prototype has been fitted with its rotor in advance of first trials off the Spanish island of Gran Canaria in the Atlantic Ocean.
The X30 PivotBuoy, a next-generation concept outfitted with an adapted Vestas V29 turbine that ‘weathervanes’ with the wind, will undertake a one-year trial this summer, with an eye on a first pre-commercial development made up of up to five 5-6MW units off the Canary Islands “by 2024-25”, the
