Floating Wind Turbines – New Developments in a Buoyant Market

In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry – developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.

Principle Power, alongside partners EDP, InovCapital, Vestas and others, has recently signed an agreement for the deployment of the first full scale WindFloat, with a Vestas V80 – 2.0 MW turbine, off the coast of Portugal later this year.

In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry - developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.