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Throughout a latest ceremony at sea attended by Equinor officers and Norwegian authorities dignitaries, the nation’s Crown Prince Haakon formally opened Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating wind farm.
Hywind Tampen can also be the world’s first floating wind farm constructed particularly to energy offshore oil and fuel installations, and it’s now supplying electrical energy to Equinor’s oil and fuel fields Snorre and Gullfaks within the Norwegian North Sea. It’s anticipated to cowl about 35% of their annual want for electrical energy.
With a system capability of 88 MW, Hywind Tampen consists of 11 wind generators primarily based on a floating idea developed by Equinor. It is going to be a take a look at mattress for additional improvement of floating wind, exploring the usage of new and bigger generators, installations strategies, simplified moorings, concrete substructures and integration between fuel and wind energy era techniques.
In 5 years, the undertaking went from the drafting board to completion. Norwegian suppliers have been awarded 60% of the contract values within the undertaking. This has contributed to new exercise, inexperienced jobs, native spin-offs and know-how improvement for future floating offshore wind initiatives in a rising business.
“The undertaking has given us and the provider business helpful expertise that can be essential once we work collectively to develop offshore wind additional in Norway and globally, scaling up for the long run,” says Kjetil Hove, govt vice chairman for the Norwegian continental shelf in Equinor.
With Hywind Tampen now operational, Equinor is now working practically half (47%) of the world’s offshore floating wind capability.
Photograph by Ole Jorgen Bratland / © Equinor