We are a company made of a driven group of professionals with a common passion for the environment who combine youth, excellence, and experience in some of the top institutions in the sector. Our mission is to find smarter solutions to solve the climate challenge and allow us to change the way we produce energy and radically minimize the impact we have on the environment.
Despite the recent creation of the company in 2017, our technology 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, we 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.
The company is very proud of having attracted top talent from diverse backgrounds. Our team is composed of accomplished professionals in the fields of wind energy, mechanical, electrical, structural, aeronautical and naval engineering, strategy and business advisory. We have studied in leading institutions such as the MIT, Singularity University, Imperial College London or INSEAD as well as worked in top companies and research centers in the wind and offshore energy sector.
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).
Linkedin
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.
LinkedIn