The engineering story behind the world’s first floating wind farm. hywind, a £190m project to create a floating wind farm 15 miles off the coast of aberdeenshire, reached a significant milestone last month as the first giant turbine was moved into place. the pilot will see a total of five turbines towed by boat from a norwegian fjord to the. The world’s first floating wind farm, the 30 mw hywind scotland pilot park, has been in operation since 2017, demonstrating the feasibility of floating wind farms that could be ten times larger. equinor and partner masdar invested nok 2 billion to realise hywind scotland, achieving a 60 70% cost reduction compared with the hywind demo project.
Scotland's hywind project. touted as the world's "first floating wind farm," the hywind project involved mounting five hywind wind turbines twenty five kilometers off the coast of scotland mid 2017. each turbine is twenty five meters high, with seventy eight meters submerged underwater, and is anchored to the seafloor by three cables (fig. 2). To stabilize the first floating wind farm, completed in 2017 about 50 kilometers northeast of the aberdeen project, norwegian energy giant equinor used a ballasted steel column that extends 78. In 2017, this prototype has come to fruition destined to be anchored off the coast of peterhead, scotland to create the world's first floating wind farm, a £200m project known as hywind. the. The world’s first floating offshore wind farm was officially opened today in scotland. statoil has installed a 30 mw wind farm off the north east coast of scotland. it comprises five 6 mw siemens turbines installed on floating structures at buchan deep, 25 km off peterhead. the “hywind scotland” wind farm is expected to power around.
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