A 35-person Spanish technology developer joins European competition in the rapidly emerging global market for floating offshore wind energy turbine platforms.

Equinor Wind US LCC is a subsidiary of the Norwegian energy company with its own spar and semi-submersible floating wind technology.

The Hywind Scotland project became the first commercial-scale offshore floating wind farm in 2017, with five 6-megawatt turbines supported by spar buoys designed by the Norwegian energy company ...

Statoil recently revealed plans to set up five of its Hywind cylindrical-float turbines in what’s deemed as the first floating wind farm.

As the world’s floating wind power fleet has expanded from prototype to array, with first commercial-scale projects now tantalisingly close to lift-off, the debate in industry has tended to focus ...

Some of the most powerful offshore wind sites are in water too deep for a standard wind turbines. Engineers found a way around the problem.

Saipem, the Italian oil and gas contractor, has unveiled a novel floating offshore wind substructure that will go into the water for testing off Ireland's west coast from 2022. The "Hexafloat ...

In a webinar on floating offshore wind farms presented in April of last year, the agency said that the mooring lines for floating turbines like Aqua Ventus “would be a significant challenge for ...

Hywind, the world's first commercial-scale floating deep-water wind turbine, launched in Europe in 2009. The University of Maine is now preparing what would be the first full-scale offshore ...

Aqua Ventus generates power with “VolturnUS 1:8”, a 65-foot-tall floating turbine prototype that is one-eighth the scale of a planned six-megawatt turbine with a 450-foot rotor diameter.

When will floating wind farms become widespread? The only floating wind farm generating meaningful amounts of electricity is Hywind Scotland, developed by Equinor in 2017.