Moored in deep waters off the Mediterranean island’s northeast coast, the structure would bristle with 36 turbines — a 120-metre-tall horizontal-axis 6.5MW machine on each of its six corners, and a further 30 500kW vertical-axis units. It would be the largest single offshore wind complex in the world.

Deployment of the first Hexicon is a three-horse race, with sites off Cyprus and Sweden also in the running.