A proven and innovative floating wind system ready to change the offshore wind industry paradigm.
Oceans contain the largest energy resource on the planet, which remains untapped.
The total global technical potential of offshore wind is estimated to be 71 TW (World Bank, 2021), of which 70% is in deep waters, suited to floating wind.
A disruptive technology to make a step-change in the costs of floating wind.
We have achieved this by using a weathervaning downwind concept and a single-point mooring system (PivotBuoy®), resulting in a cost-effective and scalable solution.
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Proven floating wind platform preparing the industrial deployment
After successfully proving the technology with the PivotBuoy Project in the Canary Islands, the team is preparing pre-commercial and commercial floating wind Projects.
Concept development
The concept was ideated in 2012 by Carlos Casanovas, CTO and co-founder, while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Company Launch & Patent Filing
Co-founders Alex Raventos and Carlos Casanovas launched the company in 2017 and filed the technology’s first patent. The company obtained several prizes and recognitions from prestigious organizations such as Innoenergy and Singularity University.
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Proof of Concept & Validation
To validate the technology, two tank tests have been conducted with successful results. The first one (2018) was on CIEMLAB wave flume in UPC, Barcelona with a 1:64 scale model, and the second one (2019) in the Hydrodynamic and Ocean Engineering tank of ECN, Nantes with a 1:50 scale model through the MariNET2 Programme.
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X30: Scale-prototype in the Canaries
The PivotBuoy Project, funded by the H2020 program, have validated our technology through the installation and operation in real conditions of a part-scale prototype in Gran Canaria.
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X1 ACCELERATOR
X1 Wind is currently working on the design and certification of its first commercial-scale product, the X90 platform for turbines in the 5-6MW range through the EU-funded X1 ACCELERATOR Project.
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Commercial Scale Platforms
In-house development of our X90 and X140 floating platform regarding a first pre-commercial demonstrator.
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