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Farwind Energy as completed a €10 million financing package (announced in June 2026) that allows it to move on to the concrete phase for its Flettner rotor.

It should be noted that there has been a change of course since the creation of the startup in 2020: FARWIND ENERGY ‘s initial project was the “energy ship”, an autonomous sailboat producing hydrogen on the high seas. Today, the Flettner rotor sold to third parties has become the priority market. The energy ship remains in the cards, but has been postponed to 2030.

The prototype (4 m in diameter, 28 m high), whose manufacture at LOIRETECH was supposed to start in the weeks following the June 2026 announcement, is probably already being manufactured. Onshore test scheduled for early 2027 at the CSTB site in Bouin in the Vendée, as part of the VentFrais II project.

The only test on performance gains that will be worth anything is the one in real conditions, announced for the second half of 2027 in the Caribbean area.

A point of context to situate Farwind Energy in its sector: the Flettner rotor is now the most installed sailing technology on commercial vessels, and the Finnish Norsepower is the undisputed world leader, with nearly 40 rotors already in service. Norsepower also opened a factory in China at the end of 2024 to industrialize its production, a sign that the manufacture of this technology is moving in part to Asia. Farwind Energy, with its partnership Loiretech in Nantes, defends a French production line in a market where competition is already international and where the leader is a decade ahead.

Source: Farwind Energy

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