Every day since April 20th, we've been shown what can happen when something goes terribly wrong on a deep-sea, floating oil rig. But what about a deep-sea, floating wind turbine? Would it topple?

The WindFloat Atlantic project – the world's first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Portugal with only three turbines – has exceeded expectations over the last ...

Portugal’s WindFloat Atlantic – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – is now four years old and still breaking its own power output records. The 25 megawatt (MW) WindFloat ...

Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has issued Approval in Principle for the WindFloat Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) foundation. WindFloat is designed by Principle ...

In the summer of 2020, Windfloat Atlantic, off the coast of Viana do Castelo, Portugal, became the world’s first floating wind farm. A decade ago, offshore wind represented just 1 percent of global ...

Work to install turbines for the Windfloat Atlantic floating wind project that will be built off Portugal has kicked off, according to project partner Repsol. The 25MW floating offshore wind farm is ...

The US’s long-awaited entry into the global floating wind arena is being stepped up through Principle Power’s recently unveiled plans to deploy a maiden 2MW version of its WindFloat deepwater platform ...

For nearly 30 years, the world has been collecting renewable wind energy by installing giant wind turbines off shorelines, anchored to the sea floor. That surplus of wind power helps turn wind ...

Kincardine floating offshore wind farm, located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, is now fully operational, Principle Power, a company that designed the 50MW wind farm's semi-submersible ...

The combine, which will be led by newly appointed chief executive Joao Metelo, is developing projects around its WindFloat semisubmersible turbine arrays in the US, UK and Portugal. "As Principle ...

Principle Power announces that floating offshore wind projects using the WindFloat ® technology have generated more than 1 terawatt-hour (TWh) of cumulative power production since WindFloat 1 was ...