The first operational results of the 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine, equipped with the Ideol floating foundation and installed on the Sem-Rev test site (Atlantic Coast of France), meet and even exceed expectations. Ideol's patented technology is now fully validated and ready for commercial-scale deployments.
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Ideol and Shizen Energy, a leading Japanese renewable specialist, have expressed a formal intention to collaborate on the development of a commercial-scale floating wind project located off Kyushu using Ideol’s technology. This agreement was signed in Tokyo today by Mr Paul de la Guérivière, CEO of Ideol, and Mr Masaya Hasegawa, Representative Director of Shizen Energy, during the state visit of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic. Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy, attended the signing ceremony.
The NEDO, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, owner of the project, announced in late May that the so-called Hibiki floating offshore wind turbine has satisfied all permitting requirements and has officially been inaugurated. Hibiki was tugged from Kitakyushu Port on the 29th of August 2018, and arrived at the site before facing three super-typhoons (Category-5, super typhoon by SSHWS) just after the installation. The floating wind turbine based on Ideol’s patented damping pool confirms its excellent seakeeping performance already witnessed on Ideol’s Floatgen project.
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Ideol, the internationally recognized leader in floating offshore wind, and Atlantique Offshore Energy, Chantiers de l’Atlantique Business Unit specialized in Offshore projects providing leading EPCIM solutions of substations to the bottom-fixed offshore wind industry, held a whole-day technical seminar in Paris today and unveiled the details of their universal and market-ready solution to the senior executives and technical experts of Europe’s largest transmission systems operators (TSO), utilities and offshore wind developers.
