Portugal's First Offshore Wind Turbine Installed and Certified

  Portugal’s first offshore wind turbine has been installed and certified care of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), which provided certification services for the design, fabrication, and installation of the 2MW WindFloat Agucadoura unit.


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  Portugal’s first offshore wind turbine has been installed and certified care of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), which provided certification services for the design, fabrication, and installation of the 2MW WindFloat Agucadoura unit. The floating wind turbine now sits in waters of slightly less than 50 metres some 4 kilometres off the northern coast [...]


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