A joint venture between Spain’s Saitec Offshore Technologies, German energy giant RWE and Japan’s Kansai Electric Power has completed the installation of a 2MW pilot of a new floating wind platform in open sea waters.

The joint venture, dubbed Windstaller Alliance, used the Normand Sapphire anchor handling tug supply vessel, to tow the DemoSATH platform 11 miles from the Spanish Port of Bilbao to a 85m deep BiMEP test site, located two miles offshore.