Technip consortium’s NextFloat X90 pre-commercial 6MW floating wind platform has been granted a statement of feasibility from DNV.
The platform concept has already been successfully tested at a 1:3 scale at the PLOCAN test site in the Canary Islands, and has now passed the first step in the certification process of commercial-sized units.
To reach this milestone, the X90 platform, designed for 6MW wind turbines, has undergone rigorous scrutiny, including an in-depth risk assessment looking at all aspects of the design.
Together with DNV, the consortium will continue working on the design and certification of the platform in the coming months.
This will be under the scope of the NextFloat project, which will build and test an X90 unit to be installed in the French Mediterranean in 2025.
The site hopes to advance in parallel the industrialisation and scaling-up of the integrated solution up to over 20MW scale, in preparation of commercial floating wind farms under development in Europe.