The first Principle Power-designed foundation and MHI Vestas turbine for the WindPlus consortium’s 25MW WindFloat Atlantic project has sailed from Ferrol harbour in Spain for installation off the coast of Portugal.
Bourbon Offshore is towing the Navantia-built WindFloat platform on the 200km journey, and will shortly hook it up to fibre rope mooring lines and anchors laid 20km off the coast of Viana do Castelo.
Bourbon installed the anchors at the project, which lies in waters 100 metres deep, in June this year.
DeepOcean last month finished laying the project’s 150kV Hentong-made export cable and Bourbon will link the project’s three turbines via dynamic array cable from UK outfit JDR later this year.
Portuguese contractor ASM is finalising the final two foundations, which will be installed later this autumn.
The project will feature three MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines and is the first floating wind project in continental Europe.
The WindFloat consortium comprises EDP Renewables (54.4%), Engie (25%), Repsol (19.4%) and Principle Power (1.2%).