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Astilleros San Enrique has launched the floating solar platform PV-bos Catarroja for BlueNewables and Naturgy. The unit is the second built at the Vigo yard for the pre-commercial marine floating solar project, and it will be towed to Valencia after testing.
Astilleros San Enrique will start a specialist training programme in naval boilermaking and piping in September, aimed at unemployed people with no previous experience. The yard said the scheme will be run with Formavigo, part of the Tesol group, under the Xunta de Galicia’s Galicia Suma Talento 2026-2029 programme.
Astilleros San Enrique has sent the Paiporta floating solar platform to Valencia, where it is due to arrive in about two weeks. The 1 MW pre-commercial PV-bos unit was built for BlueNewables with Naturgy and is the first floating solar installation at sea in Spain at this scale. A second platform is already under construction at the Vigo yard.