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The largest floating wind farm in the world produced its first energy with Siemens Gamesa turbines, will have a capacity of 88 MW, making it the most powerful of its kind on the planet!
The western and northern seas of Europe are known for strong wind currents and are therefore expected to become one of the bases of European energy with the use of renewable energy sources. Norwegian Equinor said that the energy production of the company's first wind turbine Hywind Tampen – the largest floating wind farm in the world, has been started!
Plant has a total of 11 turbines (8MW Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD). Seven of the wind farm's turbines came online in 2022, with installation of the remaining four taking place in 2023. When completed, Equinor says the offshore wind farm will have a system capacity of 88 megawatts, making it the most powerful energy in the world. kind in the world!
Watch the video below and follow the assembly of the largest floating wind farm in the world
The world's first wind farm powering production from oil and gas facilities
The world's largest floating wind farm will be used to make oil and gas extraction in the North Sea a little more environmentally friendly and will also contribute to greater energy independence in Norway and Europe. Equinor said the first energy from Hywind Tampen was sent to the Gullfaks field.
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“I am proud that we have now started power production at Hywind Tampen, Norway’s first and world’s largest floating wind farm,” said Geir Tungesvik, Equinor’s Executive Vice President for Projects, Drilling and Procurement.
“This is a unique project, the world's first wind farm that feeds production from oil and gas facilities.”
Equinor also said that Hywind Tampen will meet around 35% of energy demand from the Gullfaks and Snorre fields. “This will reduce CO2 emissions from oil and gas fields by around 200.000 tons per year,” added the oil company.
Hywind Tampen is located about 140 kilometers (86,9 miles) off the coast of Norway, at depths ranging from 260 to 300 meters.
Siemens Gamesa turbines
The 11 MW power Siemens Gamesa turbines at Hywind Tampen are installed on a floating concrete structure, with a joint mooring system. An advantage of floating wind turbines is that they allow installation in deeper waters compared to fixed-bottom turbines.
Equinor in 2017 began operating Hywind Scotland, a 30 MW floating wind farm with five turbines, a project considered the world's first floating wind farm.
US government said it wanted at least 15 GW of power from floating offshore wind capacity installed off the US coast by 2035
Several other floating wind farm projects have entered service in the past five years or are under development.
The Biden administration has said it wants at least 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity installed off the U.S. coast by 2035. The administration's “Floating Offshore Wind Shot” aims to reduce the costs of floating offshore wind technologies by more than 70% over the next decade.
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