The £556,000 ($881,000) grant will allow the company – a joint venture of engineering groups Hochtief, Costain and Arup – to move toward construction of a demonstrator unit for deployment in UK waters within the next two years.

The Gravitas foundation is a mass-producible, self-floating concept designed for large-scale wind turbines, substations and met-masts, to be installed at sites with water depths greater than 25 metres.

Gravitas