A crucial step of Floatgen’s installation successfully completed

This highly innovative system was conceived and engineered by Ideol, the internationally recognized leader in floating offshore wind. It is composed of 6 nylon mooring lines, a worldwide premiere for a permanent mooring system of such dimensions.

This installation took place as the construction of the concrete floating foundation built by Bouygues Travaux Publics in Saint-Nazaire is coming to an end. Once equipped with the wind turbine, the complete unit is expected to be tugged before the end of the year towards SEM-REV, the world’s 1st multiple MRE technology test site connected to the grid.

Destined to equip other MRE systems, the mooring system designed by Ideol must satisfy two sometimes contradictory requirements: 

• a cost-competitive manufacturing and installation enabling the production of electricity at the lowest possible cost
• the weathering of extreme environmental conditions such as high swell, biofouling, storms…

The engineering teams will monitor this innovative system during the entire project’s lifetime whilst several R&D projects are already underway to analyze and perhaps even improve this pioneering mooring system’s performance.