French floating wind foundation developer Eolink and Dutch robotics company Kranendonk are looking into setting up a gigafactory for automated production of floating wind foundations.

Eolink said it had slightly adapted its detailed design to be fully compatible with automated welding robots which would be used in Kranendonk production line. The flow-rate and the infrastructural investments have been optimised together in order to achieve Eolink’s targeted cost of energy of EUR 35/MWh once the first gigawatt is installed, the company said.