X1 Wind are a technology-based company looking for smarter solutions to solve the challenges of the energy revolution.
X1 Wind is a disruptive floating wind system with the potential to make a step change in offshore wind. Based on more than 10 years of experience of the founding team in offshore renewables, X1 Wind has been designed to benefit from the “offshore” environment to drive costs down. The design drivers have been weight reduction, simplified installation with a quick connection system, elimination of unnecessary systems to reduce maintenance and scalability.
Despite the recent creation of the company in 2017, the technology of the company is the result of more than 20 years of experience in the offshore renewable energy sector. Carlos Casanovas started working on the concept in 2012 while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2017, together with Alex Raventos, both co-founders filed the patent and incorporated the company. Since then, they have been advancing fast in the technology development and have raised private investment as well obtained prizes, funding, and recognition from leading such as Innoenergy, H2020 program, EIC Accelerator, CDTI, ENISA, or ACCIO.
Alex Raventos
CEO & Co-Founder
Alex (GSP at Singularity University, Executive Master at MIT-Portugal and Industrial Engineer from UPC) worked as an expert on techno-economic analysis of new offshore technologies before co-founding X1 Wind. He has more than 10 years of experience in offshore renewables, being Head of the Economic Analysis Department at WavEC (PT, 2009-15), New Programs Coordinator at Bluewater (NL, 2014-15) and founding its own consultancy Inn2Grid (2014), having raised more than 10 million Euros in public funding. Before that, he also worked in the development of solar PV projects at Abencis (2007-09).
Carlos Casanovas
CTO & Co-Founder
Carlos (M. Sc. at MIT and Industrial Engineer from UPC) developed the X1 Wind concept while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 2012-2014). He has extensive experience as Dynamic Analysis Engineer in offshore wind, having worked on Adwen (Gamesa/Siemens) on their AD8-180 8MW offshore wind turbine (2016-17) as well as in Alstom Wind (2007-12), leading the drive train design of HALIADE 6 MW offshore turbine. He also worked at Bluewater (NL, 2014-15) where he created advanced simulation models for integrated tidal turbine-platform analysis as well as participating in the assembly, anchoring and installation of their Bluetec prototype.
