Japan has just marked a historic milestone with the commercial launch of the Goto City Offshore Wind Power Generation Project (16.8 MW), featuring Spar foundation. Developed by Toda Corporation, these structures move away from traditional all-steel designs. Instead, they use hybrid concrete-steel approach. Main advantages … Read More
EolMed Launches Installation of Floating Wind Turbines on Concrete Substructures
The first floating turbine of the Eolmed offshore wind farm (Vestas V164 – 10 MW) has departed from Port-La Nouvelle toward its installation site, around 20 km offshore in the Mediterranean, in waters approximately 60 m deep. The 30 MW pilot project is led by Qair Group, … Read More
Windcrete Attends Innovation Wind Talks 2025!
The Windcrete team was present at the anual Innovation Wind Talks 2025, organized by REOLTEC, the Spanish Innovation Wind Ecosystem held at the Agencia Estatal de Investigación in Madrid. This in-person technical assembly is the meeting point where wind innovation takes absolute center … Read More
WindCrete in Ocean Engineering Journal
We are thrilled to announce that a recent paper coauthored by members of the WindCrete team has been published in the prestigious journal, Ocean Engineering. The paper, titled “Experimental Modelling of a Novel Concrete-Based 15-MW Spar Wind Turbine”, represents a … Read More
Concrete is becoming the preferred material for most floating platforms
Saitec Offshore Technologies and RWE Renewables have selected Ferrovial to manufacture and assemble the SATH floating platform in the DemoSATH project. Source: https://www.offshore-mag.com/
A recent paper focus in the Construction possibilities for windcrete serial production
The monolithic nature of Windcrete, that sees floater, transition piece and tower as a single concrete structure, has direct impact on its potential construction process. The large-draft spar-buoy, to be fully completed in a coastal facility, requires horizontal transport that … Read More
WindCrete at EERA DeepWind’18 Conference
Windcrete was present at the EERA DeepWind’18 Conference presenting Construction Possibilities for Serial Production of Monolithic Concrete Spar Buoy Platforms. Access to Conference Web page here. Access to presented poster here.
Section about concrete floaters in the March issue of RECHARGEnews
Inside the March issue of RECHARGEnews there is an entire section dedicated to Concrete Floaters for offshore wind turbines. Darius Snieckus has talked to Professor Climent Molins about Windcrete and found the technology interesting due to its innovative design. The … Read More
Expensive, but with much potential
This is how the swiss magazine Tages Anzeiger defines the new Offshore Wind Energy. The concept WindCrete is showed as an alternative to reduce the high costs of the floating platforms, using the concrete as a main structural material. Source … Read More
Spanish researchers develop novel concrete floating platform
Windcrete, a new Spar-type floating substructure that is designed to carry wind turbines of up to 10MW in deep offshore environments, could provide a high level of reliability and lower installation, maintenance and construction costs than alternatives, says a team … Read More
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