“Local teams will now enter the last phase of a test and verification programme which started with the platform installation in November 2022, in preparation of the technology industrialisation and certification for commercial scale projects currently under development,” according to X1 Wind.
Company CTO Carlos Casanovas conceived the floating wind concept while studying at MIT in 2012. X30 has a single anchor on the sea bed and passively trails like a wind vane to orient the turbine appropriately. As such, the turbine has been designed to trail behind its nacelle in a down-wind configuration – the turbine in this case is an adapted 225kW Vestas V29 up-wind turbine.
