France’s wind power association, FEE, is lobbying its country’s government to hold a 2GW tender targeting commercial-scale floating projects early next year as a launch-pad to switching on as much as 6GW by 2030, its chief executive tells Recharge.

Pauline Le Bertre, speaking on the sidelines at the Floating Offshore Wind Turbine conference, said “strong political support [was now] imperative” if the burgeoning sector was to expanded to its “full potential” in the decades ahead.