Provence Grand Large, Leucate, Gruissan and Groix: names assured a place in the great maritime adventure being written by the floating wind sector. Together representing a humble 100MW of seaborne power, the four pilot projects could nonetheless be transformative for the wind industry, opening up the world’s deeper waters — the vast majority of the globe’s oceanic acreage — to an industry that is already planning to build 400GW of fixed-bottom offshore capacity in the next 30 years.
France fast-tracks its floating wind flotillas
IN DEPTH | France has yet to put steel in the water on its first fixed-bottom offshore wind farms, but its four flagship floating arrays are steaming towards start-up in 2020, writes Darius Snieckus
6 June 2017 9:30 GMT
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6 June 2017 9:30 GMT
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