The WHEEL project’s KoM took place on 19 and 20 January. All partners including 2-BENERGY, BOSKALIS, ROVER MARITIME, REPNAVAL, BRIDON-BEKAERT, VICINAY, PLOCAN, FIHAC, CEMEX and EnBW gathered in Brussels to get the WHEEL project started.

The WHEEL Project, selected by the European Commission under its Horizon Europe program, aims to build a full-scale prototype of ESTEYCO’s breakthrough technology for floating wind. This will allow us to prove its competitiveness and the many advantages that this solution
provides to achieve the European goal of leading the development of wind energy worldwide.

The WHEEL Technology (Wind Hybrid Evolution for Low-carbon solutions) provides an efficient solution to today’s big challenges of the wind energy market which are mainly how to create competitive floater industrialization strategies avoiding supply chain bottlenecks.

It consists of a spar floating platform, or better said, an evolved spar floating platform providing multiple advantages such as floater size reduction, low draft at harbour as well as reduction of material usage and carbon footprint.

In the meeting, Esteyco, as Coordinator of the project introduced the project to the European Commission’s Project Officer and each partner presented their tasks and responsibilities within the project.

All partners are committed to working closely together on what may be considered as one step further in the decarbonization of energy production and one step closer to the net zero emissions.