Maximizing local content, cost competitiveness and optimizing the entire process from construction to installation, maintenance and decommissioning have been the company’s key priorities since day one.
This has lead to the development of an innovative and easily scalable floating technology: the Damping Pool®.
With 2 full-scale demonstrators in operation and multiple pre-commercial and commercial-scale projects across the globe including 1GW under development in Scotland, BW Ideol is a highly competitive and leading floating wind co-developer & technology provider.
All our projects
A 2MW floating wind turbine demonstrator in operation since 2018.
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Typhoon-proven since 2018, now in commercial operation off Japan Coast
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In operation since May 2026, EOLMED is 3 x 10 MW turbines wind farms on Damping Pool® technology floaters in the French Mediterranean.
ExploreBW Ideol is composed of a fully integrated team of over 80 experts and engineers.
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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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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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The two groups partner equally on Fos3F, BW Ideol's floating foundation factory project in France
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