Engineering and upscaling of new floating renewable wind energy platform

2026-07-22

Renewable technologies are at the heart of the new energy system, with offshore wind representing a significant future opportunity. The Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) states: “Wind energy is the renewable energy technology expected to provide the largest contribution to the renewable energy targets for 2020 and beyond”. In this context, setting up the fundamental conditions for future commercialisation of the SATH’s technology is necessary. However, the high levelized cost of energy (LCoE) of floating wind technology, which is still substantially above grid parity, requires significant reduction and industrialization. SATHScale project aims to address the challenge of bringing to market SATH technology through scaling-up the prototype from the technology validated and demonstrated in a relevant environment to Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) required for commercial products in the relevant markets, i.e., to industrial readiness and maturity for market introduction, exploiting real experiences of the ongoing open-sea 2MW demonstrator that will be deployed at BiMEP (Biscay Marine Energy Platform) in Bizkaia (Spain). This challenge is expected to be solved mainly through the following factors: • Develop of industrialized fabrication system (prefabricating technology) for mass production, encompassing the manufacturing process, transportation, installation, commissioning, O&M and dismantling of the floating platform. • Design optimization from real experience data against the values obtained through conservative calculation. • Optimization of operations and maintenance logistics through data collection and analytics of real experiences of the open-sea operation of the 2MW prototype, with the consequent risk reduction of the technology innovations (de-risk), and reducing unplanned activities, improving health and safety and reducing costs. • Technology Internationalization through branches in markets with high floating wind potential.

Spain

2026-03-01