BW Ideol

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Floating offshore wind specialist BW Ideol has partnered France’s fourth largest construction group, NGE, to build an industrial-scale floating foundation manufacturing facility in southern France.

6th August 2026

French partners combine in floating foundation factory hubs

6th August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Speakers at a floating wind session at the recent WindEurope conference in Madrid highlighted the scale of the challenge ahead and the steps needed to bring the technology to commercial viability.

30th April 2026

Floating wind: Costs, challenges and path to commercial scale

30th April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Developers of a ‘first-of-a-kind’ factory that will fabricate concrete substructures for floating wind farms has won €126 million in public funding.

1st April 2026

Floating foundations first wins €millions in public funding

1st April 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Three floating substructures have been launched for the 30MW EolMed offshore wind pilot project in France.

13th October 2025

Mediterranean floating wind platforms launched

13th October 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

An application for a 1GW floating offshore wind farm off northeast Scotland has been submitted by a German, Belgian and French consortium.

26th August 2025

Floating offshore wind farm proposed for Scotland

26th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Energy firm EDF Renewables and Maple Power will design, build, operate and take down a 250MW floating offshore wind farm off the coast of France.

3rd January 2025

EDF consortium wins floating wind tender

3rd January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A French research project has been launched to try and reduce the costs associated with floating wind farm maintenance.

25th June 2024

Project set up to reduce cost of floating wind O&M

25th June 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The floating platform for offshore wind developed by French company BW Ideol over the past few years has been standardised and will go into mass production in what the company calls its…

25th April 2024

BW Ideol unveils floating platform mass production

25th April 2024