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Map of Fos-sur-Mer facilities

FOS3F: Floating Foundation Factory in Fos-Sur-Mer

An Innovative Project to Meet Demand in the Mediterranean

A concrete serial production line, bringing together BW Ideol and NGE.

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  • Capacity: Up to 30 foundations per year
  • Installation site: Fos-sur-Mer
  • Key role: Conception and construction

Illustrative Projection of a Concrete Floating Foundations Production Line by BW Ideol ; credit BW Ideol Ardersier

Ardersier3F : Floating Foundation Factory in Scotland

Serial production for the Scottish and North Sea floating wind market.

Designed to deliver one concrete floating foundation every 12 days

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  • Capacity: 500 MW per year
  • Installation site: Port of Ardersier, Scotland
  • Key role: Conception and construction

Floatgen, BW Ideol first concret Damping Pool®

Buchan Offshore Wind (ScotWind)

FIRST FLOATING PROJECT AS CO-DEVELOPER

960 MW Commercial-scale co-developed by BW Ideol, BayWa r.e. and Elicio

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  • Capacity: 960 MW
  • Installation site: Scotland (NE8)
  • Water depth: 75 - 110 metres
  • Key role: Co-development of the project

Wind turbines in the Mediterranean (Eolmed project)

Méditerranée Grand Large [AO6]

Commercial project from the French "AO6" tender

A 230 to 280 MW floating wind farm 25 km off the Mediterranean coast.

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  • Capacity: Between 230 and 280 MW
  • Installation site: 25km off Fos-sur-Mer
  • Water depth: 60 to 130 m
  • Key role: Floating Foundations conception and Co-developer

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Floatgen demonstrator

France's first offshore wind turbine and BW Ideol's first unit

A 2MW floating wind turbine demonstrator in operation since 2018.

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  • Capacity: 2 MW (Vestas V80)
  • Installation site: SEM-REV test site at Le Croisic (France)
  • Water depth: 33 metres
  • Key role: Conception, construction, installation, operation & maintenance

Eolmed towing Credit Qair

EOLMED Project

A pre-commercial project of 3 units

In operation since May 2026, EOLMED is 3 x 10 MW turbines wind farms on Damping Pool® technology floaters in the French Mediterranean.

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  • Capacity: 30 MW
  • Installation site: Occitanie (France)
  • Water depth: 55 metres
  • Key role: Design & engineering of the floaters, co-development of the project

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Hibiki

BW Ideol's second unit

Typhoon-proven since 2018, now in commercial operation off Japan Coast

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  • Capacity: 3 MW
  • Installation site: Kitakyushu
  • Water depth: 55 meters
  • Key role: Design & engineering of the floater

BW Ideol Japan

Japanese projects

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  • Capacity: Multi-GW
  • Key role: Co-development

Iberian Peninsula - DR

Iberian Peninsula

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  • Capacity: Multi-GW
  • Key role: Co-development of projects

Campagne d'essais

BATSO Project

Operations & Maintenance — 2024-2027

Optimising heavy maintenance for floating offshore wind turbines

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World map

Other pre-commercial & commercial-scale projects

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  • Capacity: Multi-GW
  • Installation site: Across the globe
  • Water depth: 50 to 200 meters

Floatech

FLOATECH

R&D project

Increasing the technical maturity and the cost competitiveness of floating offshore wind.

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Piaff & Co

PIAFF&CO

R&D Project

Improve knowledge of flying fauna in the vicinity of offshore wind farms

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Velella

Velella

R&D Project

An R&D project dedicated to the environmental impact of floating offshore wind.

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Quotes  

We expect to have about 40 gigawatts in service in 2050 in France, no less than fifty parks in 2050

  • Emmanuel Macron
  • French President

Floating wind has a key role to play to achieve countries’ renewable energy targets

  • Giles Dickson
  • CEO of Wind Europe

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Corporate and projects updates

DNV certification

Damping Pool® floating foundation for Buchan Offshore Wind receives DNV Basic Design Certification

After the certification of BW Ideol's standard 15MW+ platform in 2025, DNV has now certified the design developed specifically for Buchan Offshore Wind's North Sea site.

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Illustrative Projection of a Concrete Floating Foundations Fabrication Line by BW Ideol in Ardesier ; credit BW Ideol

BW Ideol secures first public sector backing for its Ardersier floating foundation factory

Highlands and Islands Enterprise has approved more than £778,000 in Scottish Government funding to support the front-end engineering design study for BW Ideol's planned floating foundation manufacturing facility at the Port of Ardersier.

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Parc éolien flottant Eolmed équipé des fondations Damping Pool® de BW Ideol - crédit BW Ideol

BW Ideol and NGE join forces in the Mediterranean

The two groups partner equally on Fos3F, BW Ideol's floating foundation factory project in France

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