Portuguese fabricator ASM Industries (asm-industries.com) has won a contract to supply two complete platforms for Windplus’s 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind farm off the northern coast of Portugal.

The production is already underway and the delivery of the platforms is scheduled for June 2019.

Adelino Costa Matos, CEO of ASM Industries, said: “This contract is a clear victory for our strategy to position ASM Industries among Europe’s leading suppliers of steelworks for the energy sector — including wind towers, off-shore foundations and marine structures.

“We are currently investing a total of 40 million euros in two new units in Setúbal and Aveiro for the serial manufacture off-shore structures — a strategic area with potential to be explored.”

The WindFloat Atlantic project is being developed by WindPlus, a consortium of EDP Renewables, Mitsubishi Corporation, Chiyoda Corporation, Trust Energy and Repsol.

The wind farm will comprise three MHI Vestas V164-8.0MW turbines, and is scheduled to be fully commissioned in 2019.

The foundations and turbines will be entirely built and assembled on land and later towed out to the wind farm location.

The WindFloat concept was originated by Principle Power in 2011, with WindFloat 1 installed off the Portuguese coast for demonstration purposes. After completing all the project objectives, Principle Power decommissioned WindFloat 1 at the end of September 2016.