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Hywind Tampen, world's largest floating wind farm, launched

13.11.2022

Norwegian energy company Equinor, better known for projects in the oil and gas industry, has begun commissioning the world's largest (according to it) floating wind farm, with more turbines to start operating at the end of the current beginning of next years.

The first turbine under the Hywind Tampen project started operating on Sunday. Although this is renewable energy, all electricity produced will be used exclusively to obtain oil and gas from the North Sea sites.

Hywind Tampen is located 140 km off the coast of Norway, seven turbines should be operational by the end of 2022, and four more should be installed next year. After the full implementation of the project, its capacity will be 88 MW.

In addition to Equinor, Var Energi, INPEX Idemitsu, Petoro, Wintershall Dea and OMV are participating in the project. According to reports, Hywind Tampen will provide up to 35% of the energy for the Gullfaks and Snorre oil and gas developments. The use of renewable energy will reduce the carbon footprint of fossil fuel extraction. However, such a project still draws criticism from eco-activists, since hydrocarbons, as a result, make the main contribution to environmental pollution.

In 2017, Equinor already launched the Hywind Scotland project, a 30MW five-turbine power plant that Equinor calls the world's first floating wind farm.

Since then, the number of such solutions has increased significantly. Projects from Scotland to the US to China are at various stages of implementation. It is known that only the United States intends to prove the total amount of energy supplied by floating wind farms to 15 GW by 2035. In addition, the country plans to reduce the cost of such power plants by more than 70%.

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