Leader Ideol company in the field of floating offshore wind and sea fixed offshore wind industry transformer substation EPCIM supplier STX Europe offshore energy company announced that the joint development of a floating substation, compatible with bottom fixed and floating offshore wind farms.

This universal and modular approach is based on Ideol company has patented, shallow draft Damping Pool concept, designed to operate in the world's most extreme environment, is now in the stage of design and engineering, the target is one of the largest standardization and modularization, the reality to reduce cost, this will affect offshore substation market, aiming at France's upcoming floating commercial tender is ready for market. At the same time, the concept is flexible to meet customer, local law, standards, certification and other requirements.

Ideol and STX will jointly develop, build and install a floating substation that can be used in offshore wind fields and fixed at depths of 30 meters. The market has huge potential and 115 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity will be installed worldwide by 2030.

The project is part of OPTIFLOT, which ABB and SNEF are also involved in.