The Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm, located 15 km southeast of Aberdeen, is the world’s largest floating wind farm with a capacity of 50 MW. Commissioned in 2021, it has six turbines — one 2 MW and five 9.5 MW — mounted on WindFloat® semi-submersible platforms. Developed by Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Ltd., now owned by Flotation Energy and Cobra Group, it generates over 200 GWh a year, enough for 50,000 homes.

Each platform, designed by Principle Power, uses three 30-metre buoyant columns anchored to the seabed, enabling operation in deep water. Power is exported through 33 kV subsea cables made by Prysmian Group.

Construction began in 2018, with the first turbine towed from Dundee and the remaining units installed by 2021. In 2024, Kincardine completed the first-ever offshore generator replacement at sea, proving floating wind’s growing maturity and engineering capability.