Getting into deep water - a tale of three pioneering wind projects: Hywind floating windfarm starts production

摘要

Wind farms are now going further and deeper offshore. Three pioneering projects in Scotland - Hywind, Beatrice, and Neart na Gaoithe - are showing the way. In October an innovative project and a world first, the 30 MW Hywind floating wind farm 25 km off the coast of Scotland, started producing electricity and delivering it to the grid. The ￡210 million array at Buchan Deep, near Peterhead, believed to be the first commercial facility of its kind, was officially opened by Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and has been hailed as a major step forward in the commercial development of floating offshore wind technology.