Spain has entered the floating wind sector in earnest, with the switch-on of sector pioneer Saitec Offshore Technologies’ (SOT) part-size BlueSATH unit, newly installed in the Cantabrian Sea off the north of the country.
The 30kW unit, moored in El Abra del Sardinero off Santander, is a 1:6 scaled prototype of a design build around the company’s SATH (swinging around twin hull) concept, a two-pontoon concrete platform anchored to the seabed with a single point mooring that allows it to ‘weathervane’ in the wind and waves.
