The funds – stumped up by cleantech investmentcapital firm Demeter Partners, Sofimac Partners and Soridec – will pave the wayfor the construction of a demonstrator unit being built with turbine-makerGamesa and Stuttgart University under the EU-backed €36m FloatGen project.
The Ideol floater is based around a square,open-centred platform design, moored to the seabed using a catenary-stylespread of chain lines, or hybrids of chain and synthetic rope, with“soil-specific” anchors.
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