X1 Wind's PivotBuoy: Innovative floating platform to help scale offshore wind energy

Spain

5 min read

Oct 14, 2020

By Emanuela Ferraro

With a downwind turbine on its patented single point mooring system, Spanish startup X1 Wind aims to disrupt the market with light, cheaper and easy to install offshore platforms

In 2012, Carlos Casanovas was studying for his master’s in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when, while researching floating wind turbines, he conceived an idea that later became PivotBuoy, an innovative single point mooring system for floating offshore wind turbines.
Offshore wind turbine platforms are not new, but, according to X1 Wind, the startup Casanovas co-founded, its PivotBuoy floating system design enables “dramatic” reduction in platform weight by up to 80%, compared with more commonly used semi-submersible and spar buoy structures. T...

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