Kumagai Gumi Joins DemoSATH as Floating Wind Test Project Extended Through 2027

Japanese construction company Kumagai Gumi has joined Saitec Offshore Technologies and Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) in the DemoSATH floating wind project in Spain, with the partners extending the prototype’s operation at the BiMEP test site through 2027.

Under a cooperation agreement, the partners will use the extended operating period for research, technology optimisation and knowledge transfer. Kumagai Gumi will focus on improving decommissioning methods and assessing construction procedures that could support mass production of floating wind platforms.

The project is moving into a new phase after demonstrating Saitec’s SATH (Swinging Around Twin Hull) technology under real offshore conditions. The partners will use operational data from the prototype to study its structural and dynamic behaviour, improve monitoring and predictive modelling, and support the design of future commercial-scale floating wind farms.

DemoSATH consists of a 2 MW wind turbine mounted on a concrete twin-hull floating platform. Located around 3.2 kilometres off the Basque coast at the BiMEP open-sea test site near Armintza, the prototype sits in approximately 85 metres of water.

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