Our Commitments

Project Benefits

Each year, WFA supplies 25,000 Portuguese households with clean energy and avoid the emission of 33,000 tons of CO2.

Being a pre-commercial project, WFA holds the objective to be the concrete realization of a proven floating offshore wind technology and represents a step towards large scale commercial floating projects with high impacts on transition towards renewable energy.

Ethics

WFA applies strict standards in terms of ethics and transparency, in complete respect of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption codes of its sponsors.

WFA complies with transparent supply chain processes and maintains values of integrity in all its relationships with stakeholders.

Environment

WFA commits to improving the environmental performance of the windfarm at each stage of the life cycle of the project, through these approaches in particular:

with its suppliers, assessing for their CO2 emission reduction policy in their own scope,
being a low impact technology: floating technology through its installation methods and anchored to the depth of the sea and not fixed, has a lower impact on seabed and biodiversity,
implementing measures such as to minimize the impact on migratory birds, with bird radar that allow for investigations regarding the barrier effect and risk of collision with elements of the wind farm.

Communities

WFA is working with local communities, mainly through the municipality, and other authorities such as the Port Captaincy and the Coast Guard, etc.), but also universities, schools and training centers. All activities bear the objective of raising awareness and educating on the benefits of renewable energy and the energy transition, as well as the floating technology innovation.

In addition, in 2022 and 2023, WindFloat Atlantic is taking part in Ocean Winds’ educational program “Wind Experts”. The objective is for local schools around Viana do Castelo to learn about climate change, renewable energy and offshore wind. We have recently announced the winner of Viana do Castelo’s first “Wind Experts” edition! Learn more about this great initiative here!

Fisheries

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Universities

At WindFloat Atlantic, we believe in the potential of the future talents from our national universities, having a dynamic of participating in the different actions and activities proposed by nearby universities.

Over the last year, we have attended several panels and discussions where we have had the opportunity to introduce the potential of offshore wind energy, with the very example of WindFloat Atlantic.

In March, we sponsored and participated in the 5th ICEC edition, an engineering competition organized by the International Association of Civil Engineering Students from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), where students had to overcome complex engineering challenges. On the Structures challenge, they were asked to create a floating platform to support a model wind turbine and were overseen and supported by Daniel Ribeiro, WindFloat Atlantic’s Asset Manager, who helped the students in the design of the structure as well as in its assembly.