Simply Blue-led Iberian floating wind venture ups sails on new gigascale Portuguese galleon

European floating wind tie-up Iberblue – formed last year by Irish developer Simply Blue and Spanish outfits Proes Consultores and FF New Energy Ventures – has unveiled its second gigascale array in the Iberian waters , dubbed Botafogo, to be built off Portugual.

The 990MW wind plant envisioned by Iberblue, which was set up with the target of bringing online 2GW of floating projects in the waters off Spain and Portgual, will feature 55 giant 18MW turbines spaced over a 359km² area in the Atlantic some 30-50km off Figueira da Foz.