FloatGen floating wind power prototype off France Photo: SEBASTIEN SALOM GOMIS/AFP/Getty Images/NTB scanpix

Floating wind power to swell 'to 70GW by 2040' buoyed by first wave projects

Analysis by Carbon Trust points to almost 11GW online by decade's end, before project pipeline mushrooms to $250bn in commercial-scale arrays

14 July 2020 13:28 GMT Updated 15 July 2020 15:27 GMT

Some 70GW of floating wind power plant will be turning by 2040 – a near-1,000-fold

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