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World’s Largest Floating Offshore Wind Farm Officially Opens

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

Norwegian energy major Equinor, together with its partners, will inaugurate today the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Tampen

The story is according to Reuters.

This page on the Equinor web site, outlines the project.

Hywind Tampen is the world’s first floating wind farm built specifically to power offshore oil and gas installations, and is now supplying electricity to Equinor’s oil and gas fields Snorre and Gullfaks in the Norwegian North Sea.

With a system capacity of 88 MW it is also the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm and an important step forward in industrialising solutions and reducing costs for future offshore wind power projects.

With Hywind Tampen now operational, Equinor is now operating nearly half (47 percent) of the world’s offshore floating wind capacity.

This floating wind farm powering oil and gas fields will be the first of many.

August 23, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Equinor, Floating Wind Power, Hywind Tampen, Offshore Operations Decarbonisation, Wind Power