Kincardine

Kincardine is a 50 MW floating offshore wind farm located about 15 km off the Aberdeenshire coast in the North Sea. The array comprises six turbines mounted on WindFloat® semi‑submersible platforms and was developed to demonstrate the commercial and operational viability of floating wind in deep waters. The project is notable as an early, grid‑connected floating wind deployment and has been described in industry sources as the world’s largest floating windfarm at the time it became fully operational. Construction and delivery were led by Cobra Wind (part of Cobra Group), with development roots linked to Flotation Energy; the site reached full commissioning and operation in 2021. Kincardine has served as a practical testbed for floating foundation technology, mooring and inter‑array cable arrangements, and offshore O&M approaches in challenging North Sea conditions. The project informed subsequent commercial floating projects and local supply‑chain activity, including use of Aberdeen as an operations base. Export arrangements used subsea export cables at a nominal 33 kV HVAC voltage to bring power ashore; route engineering and cable installation work was a notable component of the project’s marine programme. Environmental monitoring and management plans accompanied consenting and continue to inform operational monitoring.