Mister Poitou has been Centrale’s Dean for the last 17 years.

FARWIND ENERGY is a Start-up born from École Centrale de Nantes’ researched. The school is a world leader in marine renewable energy research. It hosted France’s first floating wind turbine in 2016 at its SEM-REV sea trials site.

Aurélien Babarit, head of the Marine Energies and Ocean research team at École Centrale de Nantes from 2012 to 2020, began to take an interest in the concept of the sailboathydrolienne, which would become the energy vessel, back in 2016.

Convinced by the potential of this technology based on the research work of Aurélien Babarit and Jean-Christophe Gilloteaux, an expert in offshore wind energy, FARWIND ENERGY started in July 2020 with Félix Gorintin and Arnaud Poitou.

« Today, non-interconnected areas rely on oil-, coal- or gas-fired generators for power generation. The e-FARWIND solution is a lowcarbon, flexible and reliable alternative. Electricity is supplied by a virtual power plant made up of a fleet of batteries. When empty, the batteries are charged on board FARWIND’s energy ships, to be recharged by offshore wind power.

The number of batteries and vessels can be easily adjusted to meet the needs of communities of various sizes (from 100 inhabitants to over 100,000). Each energy ship saves up to 5,000 tonnes of CO2 per year compared with an oil-fired power plant. »

The web site : https://farwind-energy.com/fr/

Team 5 : Elma Delbos, Laurie Barberi, Lucas Brogniart, Sonya Bedogni- Cuevas, Lola Lepage, Louis Girard