X1 Wind has completed the rotor assembly for its floating wind platform.The firm’s X30 prototype is now fully assembled in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain ready for installation.
Fitted with a specially adapted V29 Vestas turbine, the ‘downwind’ system is able to ‘weathervane’ and orientate passively with the wind. X1 Wind’s platform has a low draft and the ability to reach deeper waters by a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) mooring system - with a small seabed footprint.