Floating offshore wind pipeline report November 2025

RenewableUK EnergyPulse report - November 2025

Executive summary 

Floating offshore wind has faced significant headwinds over the past three years. However, a substantial long-term pipeline remains, including a large group of mid-term projects with planning approval or full planning applications submitted, and a core group of pre-commercial and commercial projects targeting completion by the end of the decade.

EnergyPulse’s current forecast estimates nearly 2.5 GW of floating offshore wind could be operational globally by the end of 2030, including capacity from partially operational projects. The vast majority of this is expected from two markets, China (45%), and the UK (41%), with activity in other core floating markets such as France, Norway, and Japan expected to accelerate in the 2030s. The UK’s 2030 forecast is loaded toward the end of the decade and depends on existing CfD-backed projects meeting milestones, as well as timely progress from upcoming pre-commercial projects. 458 MW of floating capacity is eligible for AR7, 200 MW in Scotland and 258 MW in England, the budget assigned for the round will likely only allow 2-3 projects to be successful.

Globally, 221 GW of floating offshore wind capacity is either under development or already commissioned. This includes 277 MW currently operating across 16 projects in seven countries, 93 MW is undergoing offshore construction, 9.4 GW is consented or in pre-construction, 20.8 GW with planning applications submitted, 59.7 GW with site exclusivity, and 130.7 GW in early development or the lease process.

So far in 2025, 25 MW of floating wind has been commissioned, the PGL project in France, led by EDF. A further four projects are undergoing full offshore construction. All of which are expected to become fully operational within the next four months. This includes 60MW in France, which will see the country leapfrog China and the UK to become the second largest floating market by operational capacity, 17MW in Japan (the long-delayed Goto project, now undergoing commissioning following foundation repairs), and 16MW in China, a single turbine project that will become the largest completed floating turbine globally. It is the first of four 16-18MW demonstration turbines expected over the next 12-18 months ahead of pre-commercial and commercial scale projects.

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