Floating wind is on the brink of demonstrating that it is a “different type” of renewables technology, with Scotland among the regions that will provide a launch-pad to a sector now accelerating toward building gigawatt-scale projects and developing new-energy supply chains, in the view of the CEO of Spanish start-up BlueFloat. Carlos Martin, who led EDPR’s milestone 25MW WindFloat Atlantic project, moored in the Portuguese Atlantic just over a year ago, told Recharge that the upcoming ScotWind licensing round, which includes deepwater acreage ideally suited to commercial floating arrays, will help distinguish the technology’s power production and economic development potential from that of conventional offshore wind.
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