Floating wind is at a real turning point. This burgeoning, yet fast accelerating, industry will now be focusing on the implementation of several pre-commercial projects during the next two to three years, following the encouraging return on experience of a first phase of single-unit demonstrators in Europe and Japan.

Why are these pre-commercial projects so important? Why does a company like Ideol, with two full-scale demonstrators in both Europe and Asia, find it necessary to be involved in the upcoming EolMed pilot project in France?

Apart from introducing a batch of second-generation innovations, design optimisations and benefiting from the experience of working with...