Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Floating Wind Farms

Norwegian company Equinor developed the first floating windfarm. This is the Hywind site off Aberdeen (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/30/roaring-success-of-scottish-windfarm-shows-global-potential). The Hywind installation benefits from accessing the more reliable and stronger winds way out at sea. It performs much better than static windfarms, fixed in shallow marine locations. Floating has enabled Hywind to achieve records for maximum electricity output. More electricity means cheaper! Predictably, there is now a race on to establish floating windfarms around the UK (and other) coasts.

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