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Technip tests Vertiwind prototype of a vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine

(27/01/2011)

Technip in association with Nénuphar, Converteam and EDF Energies nouvelles has launched the Vertiwind project to test a pre-industrial prototype of a vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine. The partners of the project are Seal Engineering, ISITV, IFP Energies nouvelles, Arts et Métiers, Bureau Veritas, Oceanide. Free of the constraints related to the foundations of fixed wind turbines, the Vertiwind concept opens new perspectives for wi... [more]

Hywind floating wind turbine inaugurated

(16/09/2009)

Technip has joined StatoilHydro in celebrating the inauguration of the Hywind demonstration wind turbine, which took place last week in Karmøy, Norway. Located 10 kilometers offshore Karmøy, Hywind is the first full-scale floating wind turbine and has a capacity of 2.3 MW. Following the award of the turnkey contract for the substructure of the wind turbine in May 2008, Technip’s operating center in Oslo, Norway, performed the project managemen... [more]

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