Wind

French engineer makes concrete progress on foundations

French engineering outfit Ideol plans to have a prototype of an innovative concrete floating foundation kitted out with a 5-7MW turbine ready for testing in 2014, and a 50MW wind farm built using the technology operating by 2015-16.

Rendering of a wind farm with the Ideol foundations
Rendering of a wind farm with the Ideol foundations
  • Darius Snieckus
Published 1 March 2012, 14:45Updated 26 September 2016, 14:26